E.L. Doctorow
Biography
Quotes
- Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
- Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
- Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
