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When in problem, or in doubt, run in cirles, scream and shout — Cory Doctorow

It was the fact that there was all this terrible stuff and no one seemed to be able to do anything about it. — Cory Doctorow

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale. — Cory Doctorow

I am telling you what I know - words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. — E.L. Doctorow

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. — Cory Doctorow

I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness. — E.L. Doctorow

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice. — Cory Doctorow

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. — E.L. Doctorow

Communism is an interesting thing to do, nothing I ever want to be. — Cory Doctorow

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. — E.L. Doctorow

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E.L. Doctorow

He's a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball. — Cory Doctorow

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit. — Cory Doctorow

I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it's my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to be me thinking about it? — E.L. Doctorow

So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them. — Cory Doctorow

Jacqueline, for how many days have I been without food. There was a crash, the whole house shook. Where is Langley? Where is my brother? — E.L. Doctorow

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. — E.L. Doctorow

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales. — Cory Doctorow

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing. — E.L. Doctorow

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids. — Cory Doctorow

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction. — Cory Doctorow

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror? — Cory Doctorow

I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them. — E.L. Doctorow

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. — Cory Doctorow

Your problem is, you're trying to understand it. You need to just do it. — Cory Doctorow

For me
for pretty much every writer
the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity. — Cory Doctorow

In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere. — E.L. Doctorow

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. — E.L. Doctorow

The experience of experience is untransmittable. — E.L. Doctorow

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate. — Cory Doctorow

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it. — Cory Doctorow

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read? — Cory Doctorow

And when a song is good, a standard, we recognize it as expressing a truth. Like a formula, it can apply to everyone, not just the singer. — E.L. Doctorow

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. — E.L. Doctorow

Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck. — Cory Doctorow

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring. — Cory Doctorow

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction. — E.L. Doctorow

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action ... — Cory Doctorow

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction. — E.L. Doctorow

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That is in the nature of secrets — Cory Doctorow

S security expert Bruce Schneier has said, Making bits harder to copy is like making water that's less wet. — Cory Doctorow

I choose YouTube over telly. — Cory Doctorow

I'm Homer, the blind brother. — E.L. Doctorow

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily. — Cory Doctorow

my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity — Cory Doctorow

A book is not complete until it's read — E.L. Doctorow

To Morgan, the disfigurement of his monstrous nose was the touch of God upon him, the assurance of mortality. It was the steadiest assurance he had. — E.L. Doctorow

Planning to write is not writing. — E.L. Doctorow

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images. — E.L. Doctorow

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. — E.L. Doctorow

A number is random if the simplest way to express it is by writing it down. — Cory Doctorow

And what if neutrinos in their uncountable multitudinous dark-matteredness gravitationally directing the universe ... are the souls of the dead? — E.L. Doctorow

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect. — E.L. Doctorow

He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were. — E.L. Doctorow

Dad is always hiding in his book. — E.L. Doctorow

Morgan had ordered a light lunch. They did not say much as they dined without other — E.L. Doctorow

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height
teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature. — Cory Doctorow

She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are. — E.L. Doctorow

The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini. — E.L. Doctorow

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. — E.L. Doctorow

If surgeons don't get surgeon's block, then why are you allowed to get writer's block? — Cory Doctorow

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love. — Cory Doctorow

[Freud] "sat in his quiet cozy study in Vienna, glad to be back. He said to Ernest Jones, America is a mistake, a gigantic mistake." Ragtime — E.L. Doctorow

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning! — Cory Doctorow

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream. — Cory Doctorow

Marcus is a great example of that way of thinking. He's always looking for ways a security system fails. — Cory Doctorow

What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats. — Cory Doctorow

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. — Cory Doctorow

Beneath the red crosses was another insignia: CHP. California Highway Patrol. They were State Troopers. — Cory Doctorow

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you. — E.L. Doctorow

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. — Cory Doctorow

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. — E.L. Doctorow

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars. — E.L. Doctorow

Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship. — E.L. Doctorow

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. — Cory Doctorow

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father's extended absences. " Ragtime — E.L. Doctorow

The law didn't care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal. — Cory Doctorow

Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust. — Cory Doctorow

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. — E.L. Doctorow

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions. — E.L. Doctorow

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. — E.L. Doctorow

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot. — Cory Doctorow

You want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code. — Cory Doctorow

Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he felt in having made her cry. — E.L. Doctorow

The difference between reading a story and studying a story is the difference between living the story and killing the story and looking at its guts. — Cory Doctorow

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. — E.L. Doctorow

Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection, — E.L. Doctorow

Sysadmins don't take holidays — Cory Doctorow

Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven. — Cory Doctorow

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation. — E.L. Doctorow

Like all security, privacy is hard. — Cory Doctorow

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep. — Cory Doctorow

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks — Cory Doctorow

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. — E.L. Doctorow

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better. — E.L. Doctorow

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore. — Cory Doctorow

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them. — E.L. Doctorow

Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read. — E.L. Doctorow

Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. — Cory Doctorow