E. L. Doctorow

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#form #schizophrenia #socially #writing

She was a published writer. I imagined how thrilling it must be living such a life, going around the world and making up things about it. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#work #imagination

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

— E. L. Doctorow

#assimilation #avenue #important #into #like

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

#evoke #fact #feeling #good #good writing

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#go #learn #nothing #start #writing

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#begin #find #may #more #new

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#am #bookstore #card #clerks #credit

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#culture #did #dominating #feeling #had

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#fiction #longer #narrative #nonfiction #only