162 Quotes by E. L. Doctorow

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don’t know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

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

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

I thought I would lose, so I didn’t prepare a speech.

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. ” Ragtime.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

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.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.