Robert Coover Quotes

#1. Shitfire, parson! And I mean thet sincerely! - Author: Robert Coover

#2. History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals. - Author: Robert Coover

#3. What we got is NOW, Huck, and now is forever. Until it ain't. So, you can't worry over nothing except putting off the end a your story as long as you can, and finishing it with a bang. - Author: Robert Coover

#4. Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape. - Author: Robert Coover

#5. The superhero, his underwear bagging at the seat and knees, is just a country boy at heart, tutored to perceive all human action as good or bad, orderly or dynamic, and so doesn't know whether to shit or fly. - Author: Robert Coover

#6. No matter how much sunlight and fresh air she lets in, there's always this dark little pocket of lingering night which she has to uncover. - Author: Robert Coover

#7. My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. - Author: Robert Coover

#8. 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 from it can be thought of as metafictional. - Author: Robert Coover

#9. Maybe it all went back to the days when games were decided, not by the best score in nine innings, but by the first team to score twenty-one runs - Author: Robert Coover

#10. 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 as I think I can do something inventive and insightful, then I'll keep doing it. - Author: Robert Coover

#11. I learned my realism from guys like Kafka. - Author: Robert Coover

#12. The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. - Author: Robert Coover

#13. Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. - Author: Robert Coover

#14. 'Well, I think of you as a straight shooter, Sheriff, but one who can't stop lustin' after the goddamn ineffable.'
"She said that, hunh?"
"Yup."
"Shitfire, Sheriff, what'd you do?"
"Well, I shot her. - Author: Robert Coover

#15. We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. - Author: Robert Coover

#16. In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth. - Author: Robert Coover

#17. 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. - Author: Robert Coover

#18. It's not even a lesson. It's just what it is. Damon holds the baseball up between them. It is hard and white and alive in the sun. - Author: Robert Coover

#19. It was down in Jake's old barroom Behind the Patsies' park; Jake was settin' 'em up as usual And the night was agittin' dark. At the bar stood ole Verne Mackenzie, And his eyes was bloodshot red - Author: Robert Coover