Famous Quotes / E. L. Doctorow
13 Quotations by E. L. Doctorow
- 1. History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as ...
- 2. I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
- 3. In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the per ...
- 4. It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the w ...
- 5. Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
- 6. Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after s ...
- 7. The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we n ...
- 8. There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
- 9. We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and ner ...
- 10. Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a ...
- 11. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
- 12. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
- 13. You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the detail ...