Thomas C. Foster Quotes

The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again

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

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

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

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

Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.