Doctorow Books Quotes

#1. Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.

Carol Burnett

#2. Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck

George Carlin

#3. Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.

E.L. Doctorow

#4. I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.

Tom Barrett

#5. It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Cory Doctorow

#6. There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

E.L. Doctorow

#7. The problem with reading off a screen isn't resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it's that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

Cory Doctorow

#8. 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

#9. And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

E.L. Doctorow

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

E.L. Doctorow

#11. My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

E.L. Doctorow

#12. We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

Greg Norman

#13. I remember when I was in school I had this teacher give me this E.L. Doctorow quote: They asked him how much historical research he does for his books and he said, 'As little as possible.' So I try and adhere to that.

Scott Snyder

#14. Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Cory Doctorow

#15. Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.

E.L. Doctorow

#16. History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. In the joy of others lies our own,
In the progress of others rests our own,
In the good of others abides our own,
Know this to be the key to peace and happiness

Pramukh Swami Maharaj

#18. What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Cory Doctorow

#19. Any place with a founder who brings a teddy bear to meetings," he writes, "is a step away from Jonestown.

Dan Lyons

#20. It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

E.L. Doctorow

#21. The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Cory Doctorow

#22. Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person and as a director. I wanted to be perfect for him [Michael Mann]. I wanted to give the best of my best of my best. I don't know if I did, but I was touched by him. He's totally inspirational.

Marion Cotillard

#23. You've to stand up for yourself. If you don't, no one else will.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#24. The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts.

Cory Doctorow

#25. Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

Val Kilmer

#26. Because, sometimes you've got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you've got to think about the greater good! This is war!

J.K. Rowling