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E L Doctorow Quotes

When you’re writing a book, you don’t really think about it critically. You don’t want to know too well what you’re doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it Picture Quote #1

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with ‘World’s Fair,’ as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries Picture Quote #1

Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice Picture Quote #1

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read Picture Quote #1

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better Picture Quote #1

It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way Picture Quote #1

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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we’ve thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone Picture Quote #1

I don’t think anything I’ve written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. ‘World’s Fair’ was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book Picture Quote #1

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card Picture Quote #1

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world’s value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men Picture Quote #1

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 dominion, like your own Picture Quote #1

I thought I would lose, so I didn’t prepare a speech Picture Quote #1

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad Picture Quote #1

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go Picture Quote #1

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne Picture Quote #1

A novelist is a person who lives in other people’s skins Picture Quote #1

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking Picture Quote #1

Planning to write is not writing Picture Quote #1

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Dad is always hiding in his book Picture Quote #1

The images of things are not the things in themselves Picture Quote #1

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions Picture Quote #1

Movies are too literal Picture Quote #1

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially Picture Quote #1

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind Picture Quote #1

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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don’t know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks Picture Quote #1

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining... Researching... Talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing Picture Quote #1

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth Picture Quote #1

We’re always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it’s a little raw and nervy Picture Quote #1

I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative Picture Quote #1

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 stake Picture Quote #1

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When you’re writing a book, you don’t really think about it critically. You don’t want to know too well what you’re doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it. (E L Doctorow Quotes) One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with ‘World’s Fair,’ as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries (E L Doctorow Quotes) Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. (E L Doctorow Quotes) Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read. (E L Doctorow Quotes) My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better. (E L Doctorow Quotes) It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. (E L Doctorow Quotes) If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we’ve thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone. (E L Doctorow Quotes) I don’t think anything I’ve written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. ‘World’s Fair’ was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book. (E L Doctorow Quotes) The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. (E L Doctorow Quotes) Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world’s value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men. (E L Doctorow Quotes) 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 dominion, like your own (E L Doctorow Quotes) I thought I would lose, so I didn’t prepare a speech (E L Doctorow Quotes) I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad (E L Doctorow Quotes) Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go (E L Doctorow Quotes) Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne (E L Doctorow Quotes) A novelist is a person who lives in other people’s skins (E L Doctorow Quotes) There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking (E L Doctorow Quotes) Planning to write is not writing (E L Doctorow Quotes) Dad is always hiding in his book (E L Doctorow Quotes) The images of things are not the things in themselves (E L Doctorow Quotes) Communists have no respect for people, only for positions (E L Doctorow Quotes) Movies are too literal (E L Doctorow Quotes) Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially (E L Doctorow Quotes) A book begins as a private excitement of the mind (E L Doctorow Quotes) I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don’t know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks (E L Doctorow Quotes) Planning to write is not writing. Outlining... Researching... Talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing (E L Doctorow Quotes) History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth (E L Doctorow Quotes) We’re always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it’s a little raw and nervy (E L Doctorow Quotes) I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative (E L Doctorow Quotes) 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 stake (E L Doctorow Quotes)

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