Quotes by : E.L. Doctorow

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer....

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is....

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....

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

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are....

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.....

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the....

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