E. L. Doctorow : (4)

" Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. " - E. L. Doctorow

" My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: ‘now.’ " - E. L. Doctorow

" When you’re writing a book, you don’t really think about it critically. You don’t want to know too well what you’re doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it. " - E. L. Doctorow

" I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I’m feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child’s mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. " - E. L. Doctorow