E. L. Doctorow's Profile
Brief about E. L. Doctorow: By info that we know E. L. Doctorow was born at 1931-01-06. And also E. L. Doctorow is American Author.
Some E. L. Doctorow's quotes. Goto "E. L. Doctorow's quotation" section for more.A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
Tags: Place, Time, WorkCongress 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.
Tags: Justice, Money, ProgressEach book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
Tags: Book, Others, RatherI 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.
Tags: Book, Feeling, MindI like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
Tags: Found, Gave, StoryI'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.
Tags: Home, Society, WorkMy theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
Tags: Feeling, Happen, WhyOne 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.
Tags: Put, Trust, WritingIt's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Tags: Car, Night, WholePlanning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
Tags: Talking, Write, WritingThere is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
Tags: Fiction, Longer, NarrativeWriting is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Tags: Acceptable, Socially, WritingGood writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Tags: Feeling, Good, WritingLike art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Tags: Art, Politics, SocietyIn 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.
Tags: Become, Fact, LifeA new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
Tags: May, Someone, WorkHistory is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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