Quotes by : E.L. Doctorow

I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative....

A book is not complete until it’s read

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make....

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name.....

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

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

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence....

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment,....

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.