Ambiguity Quote by E. L. Doctorow

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

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

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

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

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

— E. L. Doctorow

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

— E. L. Doctorow

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

“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

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

— E. L. Doctorow