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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

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

Movies are too literal.

Movies Literal Too

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.

Justice Money Progress Feel Solution

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

God Me World Book Think Done

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.

Myself Trust Writing World Book Out

Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

Music You Fiction Composition Books

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

Myself Think Like National Perhaps

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

Writing Book Think Doing You Find

From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.

Questions Always Everyone Days Seem

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

Start Rise Now Say Surface Almost

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

People Direction Go Kind Out Ivy

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.

Angry People Suffering Me Situation

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.

Father Music Day Musicians Street

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