E.L. Doctorow: Being

E.L. Doctorow was novelist, editor, professor. Explore interesting quotes on being.

E.L. Doctorow: 50 quotes 2 likes

“Good 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

Feeling

“I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.”

E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

Source: Ragtime

Question

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.”

E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

Source: Ragtime

Friendship

“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.”

E.L. Doctorow book Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate (1989), Ch. 16

Love , Truth , Sex , Nature