E. L. Doctorow

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1. 1931 age 0

   Born

2. 2008 age 77

   CreditJolenescreenwriter

3. 2015 age 84

   Died

• FFFrances Fisher1 title
• HGHarry Gregson-Williams1 title
• JCJessica Chastain1 title
• DRDenise Richards1 title
• TRTheresa Russell1 title
• CPChazz Palminteri1 title
• BMBenjamin Mouton1 title
• RFRupert Friend1 title
• DMDermot Mulroney1 title
• MVMichael Vartan1 title

• Influenced by

  • JPJohn Dos Passos

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

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• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  E. L. Doctorow, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining ...researching ...talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

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• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.

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• You can’t remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

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• Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.

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• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

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