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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Authority Culture Did Dominating Feeling Had Lost Storytelling Then

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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Need Research Well Whatever Working You

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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Everything Face Like Look Off Only Out Outside Seal Sentences Through Wall Way Window Writing

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Movies are too literal.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Literal Movies Too

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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Anything Been Bonus Book Came Case Did Done Drafts Eight Exception Fair Few Fluent Gave God Happened Me Months Particularly Seemed Seven Six Takes Think World Write Written Years I Think

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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. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Act Book Come Did Discoveries Fair Find Had Inventions Learn Myself One Of The Things Out Position Put Them Things Trust World Writer Writing

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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Acts Books Compose Composition Fiction Make Music Them You

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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Like Myself National Novelist Perhaps Think

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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: About Book Critically Doing Find First Justification Know Really Then Think Too Want Well Write Writing You

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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Agree Always Answer Been Days Everyone Interested Major Philosophical Questions Seem Undergraduate

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1931

Died: July 21st, 2015

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