E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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![Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/49/42749A-writing-is-a-socially-acceptable-form-schizophrenia-e-l-doctorow.png)
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
![Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/48/42748A-writing-is-an-exploration-you-start-from-nothing-learn-as-e-l-doctorow.png)
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
![Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/72/31072A-books-are-acts-of-composition-you-compose-them-you-make-e-l-doctorow.png)
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
![Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/01/35001A-longing-the-hope-for-fulfillment-is-is-one-unwavering-passion-e-l-doctorow.png)
Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.
![The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/98/34598A-the-three-most-important-documents-a-free-society-gives-are-e-l-doctorow.png)
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
![I make books for people to live in, as architects make houses. I lived in it by writing it. Now it's the reader's turn. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/97/27297A-i-make-books-for-people-to-live-as-architects-make-e-l-doctorow.png)
I make books for people to live in, as architects make houses. I lived in it by writing it. Now it's the reader's turn.
![It's like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/92/36592A-its-like-driving-a-car-at-night-you-never-see-e-l-doctorow.png)
It's like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
![Writing is like driving at night. You can see only as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/47/42747A-writing-is-like-driving-at-night-you-can-see-only-e-l-doctorow.png)
Writing is like driving at night. You can see only as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
![Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/61/24761A-planning-to-write-is-not-writing-outlining-researching-talking-people-e-l-doctorow.png)
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
![Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/72/39172A-satires-nature-is-to-be-one-sided-contemptuous-ambiguity-so-e-l-doctorow.png)
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
![When you see a manuscript as an editor...you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts and everything. - E. L. Doctorow quote.](/img/q/57/29957A-when-you-see-a-manuscript-as-editoryoure-at-ease-book-e-l-doctorow.png)
When you see a manuscript as an editor...you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts and everything.