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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

~E. L. Doctorow

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Washington is designed not to solve problems. 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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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

~E. L. Doctorow

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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Always Answers Been Books Literature Me Other Seems

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Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.

~E. L. Doctorow

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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

~E. L. Doctorow

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The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.

~E. L. Doctorow

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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Ambiguity Dwells Fiction Good Nature

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My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.

~E. L. Doctorow

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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

~E. L. Doctorow

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 6th, 1931

Died: July 21st, 2015

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