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E. L. Doctorow Quotes
E. L. Doctorow Quotes
E. L. Doctorow
American
Author
Born:
Jan 6
,
1931
Died:
Jul 21
,
2015
Book
Me
People
Think
Writing
You
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
E. L. Doctorow
Writing
Face
Everything
Way
Out
Window
Only
Through
Outside
Like
Look
Off
Wall
Sentences
Seal
Movies are too literal.
E. L. Doctorow
Too
Literal
Movies
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. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
E. L. Doctorow
Myself
Trust
Book
Writing
World
Out
One Of The Things
Find
Inventions
Writer
Had
Put
Fair
Come
Learn
Discoveries
Did
Them
Act
Things
Position
I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
E. L. Doctorow
Myself
National
Think
Like
Perhaps
Novelist
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
E. L. Doctorow
Angry
Me
Suffering
People
Situation
Moral
Seemed
Fellow
Well
Make
Him
Always
Truer
Duress
Endowment
My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
E. L. Doctorow
Music
Day
Musicians
Father
Out
Would
Inside
Inside-Out
Classical
Finest
He
Knew
Performers
Come
Repertoire
Shop
Where
Many
Street
In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
E. L. Doctorow
You
Borders
Know
Go
Fiction
Anywhere
I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
E. L. Doctorow
Time
Me
Obligation
Three
Married
Seemed
No Time
Had
Support
Got
Very
Children
Them
Early
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow
Me
Other
Books
Seems
Always
Answers
Been
Literature
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
Bible
Age
Will
Thought
Build
Gone
Everything
Machine
Complexity
Ourselves
Out
Bronze
Find
Able
About
Road
Since
Disaster
Because
How
Brain
Happens
Then
Planetary
Works
Ever
Consciousness
The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.
E. L. Doctorow
Good
You
Struggle
Noise
Writing
Important
Down
Too
Bit
Computer
Comfortable
Important Thing
Goes
Little
Little Bit
Street
Thing
Things
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