E. L. Doctorow
“The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”
“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.”
“Planning to write is not writing.”
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”