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Joshua Cohen quotes: The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.

Joshua Cohen quotes: A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.

The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.

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

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: Principal's no different from the rest - he orders and so he is.

Principal's no different from the rest - he orders and so he is.

Joshua Cohen quotes: Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

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.

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: 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.

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 quotes: How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

Joshua Cohen quotes: Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.

Joshua Cohen quotes: You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

Joshua Cohen quotes: I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

Joshua Cohen quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: All of Iowa must be campuses and crops.

All of Iowa must be campuses and crops.

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.

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: Death is the only monopoly. Nothing can compete.

Death is the only monopoly. Nothing can compete.

Joshua Cohen quotes: Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.

Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.

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

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

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

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: Books were in my family - books were my family.

Books were in my family - books were my family.

Joshua Cohen quotes: NYers are cruel enough to neglect a bond due only to trackwork on the L.

NYers are cruel enough to neglect a bond due only to trackwork on the L.

Joshua Cohen quotes: What's privacy to the employee is security to the boss.

What's privacy to the employee is security to the boss.

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.

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

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

Joshua Cohen quotes: The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

Joshua Cohen quotes: If you're reading this on a screen, fuck off. I'll only talk if I'm gripped with both hands.

If you're reading this on a screen, fuck off. I'll only talk if I'm gripped with both hands.

Joshua Cohen quotes: The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.

The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want.

Joshua Cohen quotes: I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes.

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes.

Joshua Cohen quotes: A people's legitimacy is derived from its artifacts. Even a relationship isn't a relationship unless it's left behind its trash.

A people's legitimacy is derived from its artifacts. Even a relationship isn't a relationship unless it's left behind its trash.

Joshua Cohen quotes: All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.

All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.