All E L Doctorow Quotes
- What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority… All
- The act of composition is a series of discoveries. Act
- I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to… Burdened
- A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is… Act
- Planning to write is not writing. Inspirational
- My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them… Altogether
- Dad is always hiding in his book. Always Hiding
- The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection. Air
- And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. Absorbed
- The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini. Dictator
- I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. Funny
- I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. Avoid
- And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go. Called
- The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. Birth
- Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own. Inspirational
- Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and… Circumstance
- Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. Able
- I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. Commonly
- And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no… All
- The images of things are not the things in themselves. Funny
- Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are… Animal
- The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem. Cry
- So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford… Achieved
- Communists have no respect for people, only for positions. Communist
- Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images. Carried
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