More quotes by E. L. Doctorow
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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