historian

novelist

satire

writing

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

screenwriter

playwright

professor

university teacher

essayist

cause of death

natural causes

faculty member

religion

Judaism

race / ethnicity

American Jews

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

is different from the novelist in that the historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

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

is a person who lives in other people's skins.

is different from the historian in that the historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

1s 2ature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

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.

is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. (E. L. Doctorow)

is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

is the only socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

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E.L. Doctorow