“ 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
“ Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. E. L. Doctorow
“ Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
“ Generally speaking a view of the available economic systemsthat have been tested historically must acknowledge the immensepower of capitalism to generate living standards food housingeducation the ame… E. L. Doctorow
“ One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. E. L. Doctorow
“ I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended… E. L. Doctorow
“ And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go. E. L. Doctorow
“ دیدم که اشتباه فکری چه عواقبی ممکن است داشته باشد و خاطرجمعی بیجا چقدر خطرناک است و اطمینانی که از ندیدن واقعیت ناشی میشود مرگ آور است. E. L. Doctorow
