E. L. Doctorow Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.”

“The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.”

“Movies are too literal.”

“People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.”

“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.”

“I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.”

“I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.”

“I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.”

“In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.”

“It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.”