"I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative."

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Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.160, Random House

E. L. Doctorow

#Fiction Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes

“Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial, growth. If it doesn't, we're wasting far too much of our lives on it.”
“Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.”
“I don't know what you believe in. I believe we just stop. Because if we move on to an afterlife, any kind of afterlife, that means there will be other people there. I'm tired of the chit chat. Oh, that is a handsome boy. He takes after his grandfather. Did they change the breakfast again? It tastes different to me. For Eternity? No thanks.”
“Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'”
“I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.”
“Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.”

Source : Edwin Muir (1934). “Variations on a time theme”
“When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com

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