Quotes by Doctorow, E. L.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason w >>

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assim >>

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. >>

Quotations about Sex

Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy. >>

Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. >>

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but y >>

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

Doctorow, E. L.