E. L. Doctorow Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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. Doctorow

  Book, Writing, People

• A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Book, Sleep, Enemy

• A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Book, Mind, Excitement

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Book, Writing, Discovery

  "EL Doctorow obituary" by Eric Homberger, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.

• Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Children, Book, Worry

• Dad is always hiding in his book.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Dad, Book, Hiding

  "EL Doctorow, author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate, dies in New York aged 84" by Nancy Groves, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.

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