Author: E. L. Doctorow

Quotes

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

- E. L. Doctorow

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

- E. L. Doctorow

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

- E. L. Doctorow

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

- E. L. Doctorow

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

- E. L. Doctorow

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.

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.

- E. L. Doctorow

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

- E. L. Doctorow

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

- E. L. Doctorow

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