When you see a manuscript as an editor…you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts and everything. You're familiar with the material and you can toss it around and say dirty things to the nurse.


Paris Review (Winter 1986)

E. L. Doctorow Quotes

When you see a manuscript as an editor…you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts...

When you see a manuscript as an editor…you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts...

When you see a manuscript as an editor…you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts...

When you see a manuscript as an editor…you're at ease in the book the way a surgeon is at ease in a human chest, with all the blood and the guts...