There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“When was the moment, I don’t know when, with all my remembrances I can’t find it; maybe it was during our dance,… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There are moments when I cannot bear this unremitting consciousness. It knows only itself. Awake, I am in a continuum with my dreams. I… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless,… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
