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E L Doctorow Quotes

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation Picture Quote #1

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity Picture Quote #1

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing Picture Quote #1

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images Picture Quote #1

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution Picture Quote #1

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings Picture Quote #1

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The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini Picture Quote #1

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 bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing Picture Quote #1

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being Picture Quote #1

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It’s become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment Picture Quote #1

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything 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 Picture Quote #1

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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

I’m not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who’s sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It’s not the way I work Picture Quote #1

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy Picture Quote #1

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 the sentences Picture Quote #1

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority Picture Quote #1

A new reader shouldn’t be able to find you in your work, though someone who’s read more may begin to Picture Quote #1

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The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles Picture Quote #1

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through Picture Quote #1

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem Picture Quote #1

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

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are Picture Quote #1

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon Picture Quote #1

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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

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority Picture Quote #1

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I’m feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child’s mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer Picture Quote #1

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out 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

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn’t have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that’s exactly the feeling when you write. You don’t feel possessive about it Picture Quote #1

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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation (E L Doctorow Quotes) The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity (E L Doctorow Quotes) One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing (E L Doctorow Quotes) Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images (E L Doctorow Quotes) I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution (E L Doctorow Quotes) I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings (E L Doctorow Quotes) The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini (E L Doctorow Quotes) 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 bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing (E L Doctorow Quotes) We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being (E L Doctorow Quotes) In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It’s become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment (E L Doctorow Quotes) I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything (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 (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) I’m not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who’s sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It’s not the way I work (E L Doctorow Quotes) A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy (E L Doctorow Quotes) 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 the sentences (E L Doctorow Quotes) I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority (E L Doctorow Quotes) A new reader shouldn’t be able to find you in your work, though someone who’s read more may begin to (E L Doctorow Quotes) The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles (E L Doctorow Quotes) It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through (E L Doctorow Quotes) The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem (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) Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are (E L Doctorow Quotes) Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. (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) I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. (E L Doctorow Quotes) I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I’m feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child’s mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. (E L Doctorow Quotes) My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out. (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) I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn’t have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that’s exactly the feeling when you write. You don’t feel possessive about it. (E L Doctorow Quotes)

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