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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

~E. G. Marshall

Topics: Act Because Begin Character Concentrating Dog Engine Feel Fire Going Hopefully React Then Think Thinking Through Try

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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

Topics: Because Century Made Need Reason Terrifying Vacuum Witnesses Writer Writers

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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Alive Author Because Book Bringing Each Every Identity Itself Keeps Others Own Rather Same Speaks Tends Than Think Unlike Voice Writer You I Think

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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

Topics: Actually Because Billy Black Computers Cool Discipline Easy Learned Letters Little Me Myself Orange Page Really Revise Same Same Page Screen Started Stay Thought Up While

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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

Topics: Anyway Because Beginning Books Great Great Man He Him Just Man Obama Reads Realities Saying Understand Voted Would

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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

Topics: Able About Age Because Bible Brain Bronze Build Complexity Consciousness Disaster Ever Everything Find Gone Happens How Machine Ourselves Out Planetary Road Since Then Thought Will Works

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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

~E. L. James

Topics: Because British Ironic Mean Much Television Used Watch Work Years

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I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

~E. L. Konigsburg

Topics: Because Good Makes Most Outsiders Question Things Think Us You I Think

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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Admit Because Cheers Criticism Democracy Permits Two Variety

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Always Because Book Got Long Tends Through

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