6 Quotes & Sayings By E L Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow has been the recipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His many novels include Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March, and World's Fair Read more

He is also the author of two acclaimed collections of short fiction: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Two Lives and Counting . He has written fourteen books for children, including My Brother Larry and The Book of Daniel .

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If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else. E. L. Doctorow
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate, ' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself. E. L. Doctorow
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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
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. E. L. Doctorow
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow