Thomas C Foster Quotes

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

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

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.

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

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

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

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

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

Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

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

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.

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

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 no different. It’s all more or less arbitrary of course, just like language itself.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.