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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

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.

E. L. Doctorow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Writing Book Think Doing You Find

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

Robert McChesney

Government Competition New York New

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

Ani DiFranco

Beauty Poetry Wind Easy You Wall

There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that'll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana's progress down.

Steve Bullock

Progress Political Talking Choose

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.

Tucker Carlson

Light Job World Reach Easy Country

For an acquisitive Wall Streeter, the money saved by choosing a practical car can be put toward the cost of some pricier means of mobility - like a plane.

Michael Shnayerson

Car Money Wall Cost Practical Means

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

Luke Harding

Good Employees Data Security Protect

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

Donna Karan

Positive Negative Delete Accentuate

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

David Tennant

Committee Being Like Twitter

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

Clifford Geertz

Doing Straightforward Most Should

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Alice Walker

People Wish Appearance Fools Foolish

It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Great Colleagues Appreciated Your

There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'

Tyler Joseph

Time Myself People Me Pressure You