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

~E. L. Doctorow

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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

~E. L. Doctorow

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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

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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

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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

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

~E. L. Doctorow

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

~E. L. Doctorow

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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

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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

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I 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.

~E. L. Doctorow

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1931

Died: July 21st, 2015

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