I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

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• E. L. Doctorow:

  My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the po

• E. L. Doctorow:

  A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin t

• E. L. Doctorow:

  The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

• E. L. Doctorow:

  I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping wit

• E. L. Doctorow:

  Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds tha

• E. L. Doctorow:

  I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to

• E. L. James:

  Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing

• E. L. James:

  I really like clever men who challenge you.

• E. L. James:

  I came up with a story and I wrote it.

• E. L. James:

  I'm not a great writer.