Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. DoctorowIt may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.
E. L. DoctorowIt was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
E. L. DoctorowGood writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
E. L. Doctorow