I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

- 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 weak…

- Robert Coover

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

- Robert Coover

The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.

- Robert Coover

My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.

- 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

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. But as long a…

- 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

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 lose some of its powers.

- Robert Coover