Dear Quote 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…

— Robert Coover

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

— Robert Coover

“She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Robert Coover

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

— Robert Coover