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Robert Coover Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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



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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.



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

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



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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.



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



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I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.



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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.





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