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I worry about images. Images are what things mean.
E. L. Doctorow
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E. L. Doctorow
Age: 84 †
Born: 1931
Born: January 6
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Edgar Laurence Doctorow
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
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My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.
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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
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All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.
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The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
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It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
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I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.
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A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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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.
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. 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.
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The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
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I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.
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We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
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Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.
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