Books Quote by Thomas C. Foster

“I can’t go as far as Barthes in killing off the author, but I’m with him on the importance of the reader. We are…

— Thomas C. Foster

“of his need to assert responsibility for his own life. It may be that Adela does panic in the face of Nothingness, only recovering…

— Thomas C. Foster

“When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never…

— Thomas C. Foster

“Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I…

— Thomas C. Foster

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

— Thomas C. Foster

“We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or…

— Thomas C. Foster

“corollaries—where have I seen his face, don’t I know that”

— Thomas C. Foster

“Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be…

— Thomas C. Foster

“What happens if the writer is good is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the work actually…

— Thomas C. Foster

“characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be”

— Thomas C. Foster