amyoquinn.com » Writers on Writing http://amyoquinn.com Educational and Non-Fiction Children's Writer Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:03:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 E.L. Doctorow on Writing… http://amyoquinn.com/e-l-doctorow-on-writing/ http://amyoquinn.com/e-l-doctorow-on-writing/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:56:00 +0000 admin http://amyoquinn.com/e-l-doctorow-on-writing/ I love the answer that E.L. Doctorow gave to this question:

What’s the difference between a historian writing history and a novelist?

Doctorow’s Answer:
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

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