Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
E. L. DoctorowImplications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.
E. L. DoctorowI am telling you what I knowโwords have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
E. L. DoctorowI did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
E. L. Doctorow