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Top 25 Robert Coover Quotes (2024 Update)

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.”

2. “My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.”

4. “The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn’t imagine ourselves through a day without it.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.”

5. “We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “Shitfire, parson! And I mean thet sincerely!”

6. “Shitfire, parson! And I mean thet sincerely!”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “I nearly drownded on the Big River back home, but I didn’t. Instead, I come to love the river, though the river never loved me. That’s how it was with this horse. Ever so splendid and mighty, but indifferent as running water.”

7. “I nearly drownded on the Big River back home, but I didn’t. Instead, I come to love the river, though the river never loved me. That’s how it was with this horse. Ever so splendid and mighty, but indifferent as running water.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “Their wedding night was in all truth a thing of beauty: the splendor of the celebrations, the hushed intimacy of a private walk under the cryptic light of a large moon, the unexpected delight discovered in the reflection of a candle’s flicker in a decanter of aged wine, finally the silent weeping in each other’s arms through a night that seemed infinite in its innumerable dimensions.”

8. “Their wedding night was in all truth a thing of beauty: the splendor of the celebrations, the hushed intimacy of a private walk under the cryptic light of a large moon, the unexpected delight discovered in the reflection of a candle’s flicker in a decanter of aged wine, finally the silent weeping in each other’s arms through a night that seemed infinite in its innumerable dimensions.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.”

9. “Message of the Legalists: without law, power lost its shape.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “When you’re living with a mob of other people, it’s hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain’t YOU no more.”

10. “When you’re living with a mob of other people, it’s hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain’t YOU no more.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “Language is the square hole we keep trying to jam the round peg of life into. It’s the most insane thing we do.”

11. “Language is the square hole we keep trying to jam the round peg of life into. It’s the most insane thing we do.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “Bottom half of the seventh, Brock’s boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry’s heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, in there, with them! Oh yes, boys, it was on!”

12. “Bottom half of the seventh, Brock’s boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry’s heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, in there, with them! Oh yes, boys, it was on!”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “In a sense, omnipotence is a form of impotence.”

13. “In a sense, omnipotence is a form of impotence.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.”

16. “I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “American baseball, by luck, trial, and error, and since the famous playing rules council of 1889, had struck on an almost perfect balance between offense and defense, and it was that balance, in fact, that and the accountability – the beauty of the records system which found a place to keep forever each least action – that had led Henry to baseball as his final great project.”

17. “American baseball, by luck, trial, and error, and since the famous playing rules council of 1889, had struck on an almost perfect balance between offense and defense, and it was that balance, in fact, that and the accountability – the beauty of the records system which found a place to keep forever each least action – that had led Henry to baseball as his final great project.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth.”

18. “In a way, Sandy did them a disservice, provided them with dreams and legends that blocked off their perception of the truth.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men.”

20. “She made them all laugh and forget for a moment that they were dying men.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “Some have contended that it was America’s love of pie-throwing that led the nation to develop the atomic bomb. This may or may not be true, but certainly it does help explain the country’s current panic over the possible proliferation of the bombs to unfriendly nations: it’s a cardinal rule of the act that one custard pie leads to another, and he who throws one must sooner or later face one coming from the other direction.”

23. “Some have contended that it was America’s love of pie-throwing that led the nation to develop the atomic bomb. This may or may not be true, but certainly it does help explain the country’s current panic over the possible proliferation of the bombs to unfriendly nations: it’s a cardinal rule of the act that one custard pie leads to another, and he who throws one must sooner or later face one coming from the other direction.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “And so, finally, he’d found his way back to baseball. Nothing like it really. Not the actual game so much – to tell the truth, real baseball bored him – but rather the records, the statistics, the peculiar balances between individual and team, offense and defense, strategy and luck, accident and pattern, power and intelligence. And no other activity in the world had so precise and comprehensive a history, so specific an ethic, and at the same time, strange as it seemed, so much ultimate mystery.”

24. “And so, finally, he’d found his way back to baseball. Nothing like it really. Not the actual game so much – to tell the truth, real baseball bored him – but rather the records, the statistics, the peculiar balances between individual and team, offense and defense, strategy and luck, accident and pattern, power and intelligence. And no other activity in the world had so precise and comprehensive a history, so specific an ethic, and at the same time, strange as it seemed, so much ultimate mystery.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Robert Coover Quote: “Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn’t really say anything.”

26. “Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn’t really say anything.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.”

27. “History my god. An incurable diarrhea of dead immortals.”

— Robert Coover

Robert Coover Quote: “It was almost like there was something wicked about growing up.”

28. “It was almost like there was something wicked about growing up.”

— Robert Coover

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