E l doctorow writing is an exploration

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (6 January - July 21, ) is an American author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and socialcriticism.

He held the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University.

E l doctorow writing is an exploration process

Quotes

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

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

  Writing is writing.

  • The New York Times (20 October )

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there’s only narrative.
  • New York Times Book Review (27 January )

• 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 b