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Joshua Cohen Quotes

American - Writer | 1980 -

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.

Hero Transformation Process Through

Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

Hope Money People World Book Speak

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.

Luxury You Intimacy Vocabulary Your

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

Friend Cooking Dinner Reading Stand

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

Myself Never Europe Privatization

I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

Family Me Body Say Never Always

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

Ask Answers Anything Books Advance

Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.

Challenge World Comfort Escape Visit

'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.

Life Religion Literature Meaning Say

The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.

Space People Name Internet Person

A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen.

Me Writing Name Smoke Said My Own

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Technology Back Us Give Sense Does

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