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Thomas C. Foster
14 quotes
Quotes
- “We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'p...”
- “The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ou...”
- “Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the ...”
- “Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and em...”
- “In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've alway...”
- “Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is no different. It’s ...”
- “Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and ...”
- “Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made ...”
- “History is story, too. You don't encounter her directly; you've only heard of her through narrative of one sort or anoth...”
- “The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.”
- “Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.”
- “If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.”
- “The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.”
- “Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.”