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You Quotes by E L Doctorow
- A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
- When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
- The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
- Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
- Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at…
- 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…
- Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
- In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
- Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
- A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as…
- 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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