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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."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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E. L. Doctorow
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."

Writing

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E. L. Doctorow
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

Writing

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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."

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E. L. Doctorow
"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."

Identity

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E. L. Doctorow
"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."

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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."

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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."

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E. L. Doctorow
"I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad."

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

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E. L. Doctorow
"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."

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