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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

American - Author | January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015

To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

Moving Peers Regard Immensely

Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

Great Beginning Man Saying Great Man

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.

Time Yourself People Book You Down

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

People Writing Planning Talking You

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

Experience Bad I Can Try Avoid Most

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

Art Politics Society Important Like

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

Fiction Narrative Nonfiction Only

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

Life People Person Personal Become

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

Thought Speech Lose Prepare Would

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.

Walk I Am Hell Credit I Can Know

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

Writing Short Difficult Forms

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.

Myself Trust Writing Learn Find Out

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