Quotes by E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow

A new reader shouldn’t be able to find you in your work, though someone who’s read more may begin to.

Able

May

Reader

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader’s own life.

Fiction

Flow

Force

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Book

Enemy

Sleep

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

Country

Dumb

Ministry

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Heart

Ordinary

Way

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Able

Age

Stories

Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn’t a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

Church

Justice

Tables And Chairs

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

Communist

No Respect

People

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Frustrated

Justice

Play

Dad is always hiding in his book.

Book

Dad

Hiding

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Able

Age

Air

Answers

Beach

Believe

Book

Bookstores

Bumps

Character

Children

Church

Clay

Clerks

Committed

Communist

Country

Culture

Dad

Difficult

Discovery

Distance

Distinction

Dumb

Dying

Emotion

Endure

Enemy

Exploration

Facts

Feelings

Fiction

Fiction And Nonfiction

Fifty

Flow

Fog

Force

Form

Frustrated

Games

Giving

Going Away

Good Friend

Government

Hands

Heard

Heart

Hiding

Historian

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Quotes by E. L. Doctorow

E. L. Doctorow

A new reader shouldn’t be able to find you in your work, though someone who’s read more may begin to.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader’s own life.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

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