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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Accident Almost Before Books Causes Idea Now Once Realise Rise Say Some Start Surface While

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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Come Direction Go Ivy Ivy League Kind League Out People Reversed

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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Always Angry Endowment Fellow Him Make Me Moral People Seemed Situation Suffering Truer Well

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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Adventures Adventurous Books Generous Having Idea Impressed John March Me Other Something Trilogy Two Very Young

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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Classical Come Day Father Finest He Inside Knew Many Music Musicians Out Performers Repertoire Shop Street Where Would

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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Moderation Number Vices Which

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I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: House Many Marriages Random

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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Anywhere Borders Fiction Go Know You

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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Children Early Got Had Married Me No Time Obligation Seemed Support Them Three Time Very

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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Discoveries Does Find First Get Intrigued Just Make Me Means Out Reader Simultaneously Something Way Why Write Writer You I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1931

Died: July 21st, 2015

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