E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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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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It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.
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Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
