"Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction."

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Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.157, Random House

E. L. Doctorow

#Fiction Quotes #Facts Quotes

“To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.”
“What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.”
“To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten...”
“Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.”
“Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
“If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You have to really be in touch with your heart rather than your head to write the novel you want.”
“A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils”
“When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.”

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