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| E. L. Doctorow
"The Giants were dressed in their baggy white uniforms with black pinstripes. The manager, McGraw, wore a heavy black cardigan over his barrel trunk with the letters NY emblazoned on the left sleeve. He was short and pugnacious. Like his team he wore socks with thick horizontal stripes and the small flat cap with a peak and a button on the crown ...[He] stood at third base unleashing the most constant and creative string of vile epithets of anyone. His strident caw could be heard throughout the park . . "I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. 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. Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. |
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