162 Quotes by E. L. Doctorow

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

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

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It’s become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people’s skins.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as ‘fact’ are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

I have been everywhere because I don’t know what I’m looking for.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.