I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.
E. L. DoctorowI like commas. I detest semi-colons โ I donโt think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didnโt need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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