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Joshua Cohen Quotes

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft Picture Quote #1

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don’t think this is just a function of technology. It’s also a function of cultural preference Picture Quote #1

The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry’s Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon Picture Quote #1

I’ve never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t like being victimized by a machine or by other people’s demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don’t want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology Picture Quote #1

The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it’s mystic Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate Picture Quote #1

I think if German literature could survive the 40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google Picture Quote #1

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Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I’m interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation Picture Quote #1

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Writing is a conviction before it is a craft (Joshua Cohen Quotes) Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad (Joshua Cohen Quotes) 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 Quotes) I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don’t think this is just a function of technology. It’s also a function of cultural preference. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry’s Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) I’ve never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe (Joshua Cohen Quotes) 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. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community (Joshua Cohen Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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? (Joshua Cohen Quotes) When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) I don’t like being victimized by a machine or by other people’s demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don’t want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it’s mystic. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) 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 Quotes) Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) I think if German literature could survive the 40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google. (Joshua Cohen Quotes) Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I’m interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation. (Joshua Cohen Quotes)