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 of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.
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
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
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
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 …
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. - Robert Coover
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.
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
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…
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. - Robert Coover
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.
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
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 …
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
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…
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. - Robert Coover
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.
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
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…
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