Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. DoctorowThe philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.
E. L. DoctorowThe writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow