All John Barth Quotes
- Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. Artist
- not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. Becomes
- He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses… Among
- Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find… All
- Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. Getting Ready
- My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave.… All
- All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate. All
- I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. Admire
- I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no… Baseness
- This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. Chapter
- If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too… Bad
- You're certain to get a decision in a trial. Certain
- My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so… Appeal