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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

Topics: Book Compose Composition Down Every Every Time Hazard Just People Sit Stake Themselves Time Who Write Writers You Your Yourself

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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

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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

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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.

~E. L. Doctorow

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Avoid Bad Experience Most Try I Can

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

~E. L. Doctorow

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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

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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

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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

~E. L. Doctorow

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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

Topics: About Am Bookstore Card Credit Credit Card Hand Hell Know Maybe Over Says Something Walk Who I Am I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1931

Died: July 21st, 2015

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