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E. L. Doctorow

" A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. "

Force , Fiction , Flow

" The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege. "

Law , Names , Jesus

" 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. "

People , Writing , Book

" There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination. "

Character , Voice

" We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time. "

Mistake , Past , Ifs

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