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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow

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

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

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. Doctorow

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

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow

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

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

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow

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