Books Quote by John Barth

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

— Peter Brodie

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about…

— Terry Pratchett

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.

— Heywood Broun

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer,…

— William E. Gladstone

“But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”

— Terry Pratchett

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

— Martin Amis

“I thought it such a shame that our culture had not devised a way to defang old age. A sophisticated civilization wouldn't ridicule senility,…

— Timothy Schaffert

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

— Tom Clancy

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

— Terry Pratchett

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years…

— Freya Stark

People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.…

— Douglas MacArthur