E. L. Doctorow Quotes

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. ” Ragtime

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are...

Thus with continued concentration and the expenditure of enormous amounts of energy he tried to keep...

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The a...

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their ex...

Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him a...

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make...

I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicativ...

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam...

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is...

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishmen...

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but...

I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surpr...

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights but you ca...

The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, ...

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on im...

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the f...

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from o...

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the w...

I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought i...

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the...

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

A book is not complete until it’s read

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a l...