R.I.P., Ann #Godoff [°July 22, 1949 – Feb. 24, 2026]🕯️😌🌹
#PenguinPress #RandomHouse #AtlanticMonthlyPress #SimonandSchuster #SalmanRushdie #RonChernow #ELDoctorow #ThomasPynchon #TomBrokaw #WilliamStyron #ZadieSmith #GisèlePelicot #JonathanKarp #MarilynRosenstock #AnnLeslieGodoff #AnnGodoff
AuthorOftheYear: 2015
The most significant author who died in 2015.
E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
#Booksky #Authoftheyear #Eldoctorow #thewaterworks #Americannovelists
American novelist, editor, and professor, best known for his works of historical fiction, E. L. Doctorow wrote, "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." #ELDoctorow
Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today our passages are Genesis 13:5–15:21; Matthew 5:27-48; Psalm 6:1-10; and Proverbs 1:29-33. #BibleinaYear #BibleReadings #TheMessage #Genesis #Matthew #Psalms #Proverbs #ELDoctorow
It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.
- E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime, born on this day, 1931
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#ELDoctorow
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
✒️ #ELDoctorow, American author (Ragtime; Billy Bathgate), was #BOTD 6 January 1931. #Literature
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
--Attributed to E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015)
No definitive source can be found
#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #eldoctorow
Films of the 80s. Milos Forman's "Ragtime". #movies #films #ragtime #milosforman #howardrollins #jamescagney #elizabethmcgovern #braddourif #mosesgunn #marysteenburgen #jamesolson #mandypatinkin #debbieallen #jeffreydemunn #eldoctorow #michaelweller #bogoldman #miroslavondricek #randynewman
Died #otd E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015), American novelist, 10 years ago today #ELDoctorow life story...
“#Writing is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
✒️ #ELDoctorow, American author (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate), #DOTD 21 July 2015. #Literature
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
#WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WritingQuotes #WritersQuotes #WritersRUs #ELDoctorow #FictionWritingCommunity
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
#WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WritingQuotes #WritersQuotes #WritersRUs #ELDoctorow #FictionWritingCommunity
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow:Historical fiction on the highest level. Real people from history-J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini-bump into and separate from fictional characters like bumper cars careening through the earliest years of the 20th Century.
#booksky #historicalfiction #eldoctorow #Ragtime
2025 challenge: one #book a day.
Day 73: #TheBookOfDaniel by #ELDoctorow
#America in the #Sixties: Daniel, the main character reflects on his childhood, the #death of his #parents, #executed for #treason and the current political scenario.
Also, a movie by #SidneyLumet that I haven’t watched yet.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
5/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge 📚📖💙
#historicalfiction
#fictionreader
#ireadeverything
#ragtime
#eldoctorow
#ComingUpOnTCM
RAGTIME (1981) James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E. Rollins, Jr.
Dir.: Milos Forman 6:45 PM PT
A Black musician rebels against racism in turn-of-the-century New York.
2h 35m | Drama | TV-MA
#TCM #TCMParty #ELDoctorow
📚✨ Author of the Day: E.L. Doctorow & Ragtime 🎶⚙️
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#ELDoctorow #Ragtime #HistoricalFiction #BookLovers #LiteraryLegends #ReadMoreBooks
Literarischer #6Januar
„Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.“
#ELDoctorow Geburt 1931
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
✒️ #ELDoctorow, American author (Ragtime; Billy Bathgate), was #BOTD 6 January 1931. #Literature
Book cover for Worlds Fair by E. L. Doctorow
Looking for something to read while visiting my in-laws led to my love of #ELDoctorow #books.
#WorldsFair
#BookChallenge
#Day6
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#Quotes
#ELDoctorow
And finally:
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.
E. L. Doctorow
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#Quotes
#ELDoctorow
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
~ E L Doctorow
And there are many more crackers where that came from:
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Stumbled across this #novel by #ELDoctorow in a little library in the East End of #Toronto a few days back. Really enjoying it, so far.
#books
#andrewsbrain #eldoctorow #newpurchase #bookstagram #midureads #psychology #literature #bookskysocial
Literarischer #6Januar
„Ein Buch ist erst vollständig, wenn es gelesen wird. Der Geist des Lesers fließt durch Sätze wie durch einen Kreislauf - er erleuchtet sie und erweckt sie zum Leben.“
#ELDoctorow Geburt 1931
"What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing" #ELDoctorow on the power of fiction and the art of story http://classics.esquire.com/doctorow-discourse/
#ELDoctorow on the vocabulary of #storytelling and the ancient importance of fiction http://classics.esquire.com/doctorow-discourse/
