Thomas C. Foster

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.”