"There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my……" — Donald Barthelme
"There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there."
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Donald Barthelme
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40 Quotes by Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme has 40 quotes on this site.
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Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
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The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
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Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
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I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
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The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.
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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
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Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
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Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great…
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Is death that which gives meaning to life?
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The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing,…
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More Autobiographical Quotes
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one of 96 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
— Paul Auster
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
— Paul Auster
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The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only…
— Maya Angelou
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a…
— Shirley Jackson
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It's amazing to find that so many people, who I thought really knew me, could have thought that 'Sunset Boulevard'…
— Gloria Swanson
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If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really…
— Lana Del Rey
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All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
— Charles Wright
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All art is autobiographical.
— Federico Fellini
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual…
— Will Oldham
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The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.
— Jonathan Franzen
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