Quotes by : E.L. Doctorow

A book is not complete until it’s read

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

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in....

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library....

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

The images of things are not the things in themselves.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.....

The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, objects.....