Joshua Cohen Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Joshua Cohen:

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

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

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

The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.

Joshua Cohen

Books were in my family - books were my family.

Joshua Cohen

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

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.

Joshua Cohen

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

Joshua Cohen

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

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

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.

Joshua Cohen

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

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

To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept the Jews alive for so long.

Joshua Cohen

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Joshua Cohen

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Joshua Cohen

'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.

Joshua Cohen

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

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.

Joshua Cohen