Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.E. L. Doctorow
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow
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
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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We dress them children in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.
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