"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

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Source : Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.

E. L. Doctorow

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“I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.”
“It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.”
“In the Green Zone in Iraq you have your radio, you have your food, you have your own electricity, your own toilets. Everything is a sealed American reality overlaid on top of an infrastructure that is crumbling.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.”

Source : Song: Juicy
“Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.”
“... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isnâ€™t the right word. Whatâ€™s the word Iâ€™m wanting here? Lonely. Thatâ€™s it. It was a little bit lonely.”

Source : Catherine Ryan Hyde (2010). “Second Hand Heart”, p.172, Random House
“All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sunâ€™s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but itâ€™s still one light.”
“I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.”

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