To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving. E. L. Doctorow More Quotes by E. L. Doctorow More Quotes From E. L. Doctorow And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go. E. L. Doctorow shooting four years The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini. E. L. Doctorow naked shadow imagination And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. E. L. Doctorow ordinary heart way I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand. E. L. Doctorow writing hands moving Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined. E. L. Doctorow clay territory purpose The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection. E. L. Doctorow pulse air stones Dad is always hiding in his book. E. L. Doctorow hiding dad book My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in. E. L. Doctorow losing mind memories A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing. E. L. Doctorow life-is doe writing Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read. E. L. Doctorow worry book children One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries. E. L. Doctorow writing discovery book Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what? E. L. Doctorow writing running mean We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us. E. L. Doctorow support air long One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. E. L. Doctorow writing An Animated Cartoon Theology: E. L. Doctorow smart pain animal I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for. E. L. Doctorow has-beens knows I worry about images. Images are what things mean. E. L. Doctorow worry mean Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality. E. L. Doctorow longing emotion wonderful Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies. E. L. Doctorow citizens government enemy I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything. E. L. Doctorow writing years
