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Way Quotes by E L Doctorow
- 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…
- And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.
- 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…
- 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 through…
- Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip…
- It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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