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We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. - E. L. Doctorow
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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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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
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. - 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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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist. - E. L. Doctorow
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer. - 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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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. - E. L. Doctorow
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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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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
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. - E. L. Doctorow
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. - E. L. Doctorow
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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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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity. - E. L. Doctorow
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation. - E. L. Doctorow
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E. L. Doctorow
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. - E. L. Doctorow
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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
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctorow
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E. L. Doctorow
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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
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