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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.


E. L. Doctorow

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CORY DOCTOROW What little empirical evidence is out there points to eBooks and free downloading increases sales on...
CORY DOCTOROW What petulant jerks. Look, Sony, you got caught sleazing your customers' computers. Telling us that ...
CORY DOCTOROW It does the thing that all great non-fiction needs to do — makes a subject interesting because of ...
CORY DOCTOROW And it is promotion. My publisher, Tor Books, have some modern methods that allow them to make a pro...
CORY DOCTOROW if I want to enable my readers push copies to their friends, and they're in circles like Slashdot, W...
CORY DOCTOROW [What is the new is the creative process involved in producing a blook.] Blogs encourage their autho...
CORY DOCTOROW Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what i...
CORY DOCTOROW I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to...
CORY DOCTOROW Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can...
E.L. DOCTOROW I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicativ...
E.L. DOCTOROW It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...
CORY DOCTOROW Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly ...
CORY DOCTOROW the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading i...
CORY DOCTOROW Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the thr...
CORY DOCTOROW What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of li...
CORY DOCTOROW If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When ...
CORY DOCTOROW ... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, ...
CORY DOCTOROW And that's the real reason the powerful fear open systems and networks. If anyone can set up a free ...
CORY DOCTOROW The US traded its manufacturing sector’s health for its entertainment industry, hoping that Police...
CORY DOCTOROW I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three errone...
CORY DOCTOROW Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves dire...
CORY DOCTOROW She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you ...
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