Joshua Cohen Quotes
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You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
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A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.
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Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
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Books were in my family - books were my family.
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The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
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The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.
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Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
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The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.