E. L. Doctorow

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

"Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society."

"One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing."