KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Joshua Cohen Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Joshua Cohen

Showing 11-20 of 46 Quotes by Joshua Cohen

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Books were in my family - books were my family.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.

~Joshua Cohen

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Joshua Cohen on Amazon

Related Authors

Ray Bradbury
Dale Carnegie
Robert A. Heinlein
Napoleon Hill
Elbert Hubbard
H. L. Mencken
Dr. Seuss
William Arthur Ward

Popular Authors

Marcus Aurelius Jean-Michel Basquiat Albert Camus Jim Carrey Albert Einstein Jeremy Irons Soren Kierkegaard Georgia O'Keeffe

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Death Future Graduation Humor Life Patriotism Thankful Women