English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right – as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet. Joshua Cohen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Novelists can ask – they can ask for anything – but their books are their answers in advance. Joshua Cohen Read Quote
Each and every novel is a world outside the world – for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge. Joshua Cohen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space. Joshua Cohen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human. Joshua Cohen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
