Quotes by : Thomas C. Foster

Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time,....

Reading...is a full-contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual,....

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.....

Every language has a grammar, a set of rules that govern usage and meaning, and literary language is....

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary....

we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and....

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read the living ones can use the money.

Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are....