E.L. Doctorow Quotes
E.L. Doctorow Quotes
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
1083Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.
3472I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
1475A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
1346Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
4384Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
1157Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
3336It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
2289Somehow 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.
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