Top 36 Coover Quotes
#1. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist will blow away your expectation of what late-model literature has to be. Unified by obsessions too eerie not to be real, this gorgeous rearrangement of our century's mental furniture is testimony to a new talent of Burroughs/Coover/Acker scale.
David Foster Wallace
#2. Business is all about focus. But with focus comes myopia and to conquer that, I come in to shake things up. To be invited as a keynote speaker is to have a license to interfere and interrupt.
Magnus
#4. This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#5. 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.
Robert Coover
#6. 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
Robert Coover
#7. 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.
Robert Coover
#8. My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.
Robert Coover
#9. Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.
Billy Collins
#11. The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis.
Bertrand Russell
#12. 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.
Robert Coover
#13. 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.
Robert Coover
#15. Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.
Robert Coover
#17. 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.
Robert Coover
#19. History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.
Robert Coover
#20. 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.
Robert Coover
#21. Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
Oswald Chambers
#23. Man, that kind of little honeybee just buzzes from flower to flower."
"Maybe, but honey is sweet, you know?
Colleen Coover
#24. An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
Bill Vaughan
#25. You think you see the truth because people let you believe it. If you accuse a Herrani of a lie, do you think he will dare deny it?
Marie Rutkoski
#27. I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. 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
Robert Coover
#29. I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
Jeff Tweedy
#30. Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while getting there is happiness.
David O'Brien
#31. 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
#32. In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth.
Robert Coover
#33. We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.
Robert Coover
#34. '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.
Robert Coover
#35. Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.
Robert Coover
#36. The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Robert Coover
