What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges… — Robert Coover Copy Share
I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can… — Robert Coover Copy Share
If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“I nearly drownded on the Big River back home, but I didn't. Instead, I come to love the river, though the river never loved… — Robert Coover Copy Share
There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world.… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“Why we write. Because art blows life into the lifeless, death into the deathless. Because art's lie is preferable, in truth, to life's beautiful… — Robert Coover Copy Share
What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't… — Robert Coover Copy Share
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. — Robert Coover Copy Share
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there’s always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to… — Robert Coover Copy Share
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share
