01c. 1960 ADWriting is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADThe three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADHappiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADEmily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety of male invasiveness. She knew he was working to save this poor woman, but in her mind, too, was a sense of Wrede's science as adding to the abuse committed by his fellow soldiers. He said not a word. It was as if the girl were no more than the surgical challenge she offered.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADGood 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADI started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADLike art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADIt's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.E.L. Doctorow / quote ↗
