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> [We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/we-need-myths-to-get-by-we-need-story-otherwise-the-tremendous/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

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## More by Robert Coover

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/metafiction-says-something-it-has-to-do-with-taking-a-large-fiction/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/i-learned-my-realism-from-guys-like-kafka/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [“She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/she-strives-understanding-the-futility-of-it-for-perfection/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/i-see-no-reason-to-stop-writing-but-the-reason-isn-t-always-one-of/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/if-you-start-thinking-about-the-kids-being-born-now-for-them-the/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/black-holes-are-the-seductive-dragons-of-the-universe-outwardly/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/i-nearly-drownded-on-the-big-river-back-home-but-i-didn-t-instead-i/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/there-s-no-need-to-inundate-the-world-with-books-and-language-it-s/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/oh-he-shouldn-t-be-surprised-he-s-a-marxist-and-has-nothing-but/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/why-we-write-because-art-blows-life-into-the-lifeless-death-into-the/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/what-i-saw-quite-clearly-in-the-80s-before-the-internet-was-that-the/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/some-ways-of-naming-a-generation-are-fruitful-and-some-are-not/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/people-fearing-their-own-extinction-are-willing-to-accept-and/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/no-matter-how-much-sunlight-and-fresh-air-she-lets-in-there-s-always/)

[Robert Coover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-coover/)

> [We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-coover/we-need-myths-to-get-by-we-need-story-otherwise-the-tremendous/)

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