E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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I only listen to Lil Wayne.
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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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I love science fiction.
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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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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
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They have so many great horror movies made in the '80s. I mean, the old-school horror is so good.
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There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
