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.E. L. Doctorow
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow
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.
E. L. Doctorow
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E. L. Doctorow
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
E. L. Doctorow
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Book,
Compose,
Composition,
Down,
Every,
Hazard,
Just,
Sit,
Stake,
Themselves,
Time,
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Your,
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