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E. L. Doctorow

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.


— E. L. Doctorow


#form #schizophrenia #socially #writing

She was a published writer. I imagined how thrilling it must be living such a life, going around the world and making up things about it.


— E. L. Doctorow


#work #imagination

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


— E. L. Doctorow


#assimilation #avenue #important #into #like

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


#evoke #fact #feeling #good #good writing

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.


— E. L. Doctorow


#go #learn #nothing #start #writing

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


#begin #find #may #more #new

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.


— E. L. Doctorow


#am #bookstore #card #clerks #credit

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


#end #end product #every #generation #history

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.


— E. L. Doctorow


#culture #did #dominating #feeling #had

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.


— E. L. Doctorow


#fiction #longer #narrative #nonfiction #only






About E. L. Doctorow

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Did you know about E. L. Doctorow?

In 1969 Doctorow left publishing in order to write accepting a position as Visiting Writer at the University of California Irvine where he completed The Book of Daniel (1971) a freely fictionalized consideration of the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for allegedly giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He has donated his papers to the Fales Library of New York University. 31 no.

He is known internationally for his unique works of historical fiction.

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