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

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

- 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

If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the …

- 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 matter wheth…

- 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