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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015

Topics

Good Writing Feeling Raining Being

This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don't buy it.

Great People Me Trying You Country

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

Work Lose Done Nothing Out Point

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Father God Decision Me Try Preach

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.

Matthew McConaughey

Challenge Soul Me Believe You Meet

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Science Brain Human Brain Human

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

Car World Doing You She Parking

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

Work Artist Create Want Kind Way

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Father Day Baseball Want Awareness

It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.

Government Step Environmental Control

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

Business Words Training Night Start

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

Mother Me Loved Never She One Thing

I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.

Positive Fitness People Energy Think

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