” 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. “
” Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
All 4 E. L. Doctorow Quotes about People in picture


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