E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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A cat only has itself.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
