Quote by John Barth Download Open image ““What a sentence, everything was wrong from the outset.”” — John Barth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I could tell something was wrong (everything was definitely wrong there, I mean something wrong in the already wrong thing).” — Suren Fant Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, you think something is everything and fail to realize that everything is something.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Today it strikes me that the most important aspect of these conversations was not so much what we said as what we took for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“We began in error, so obviously the ensuing events left us in error, too.” — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
“After all that had happened, that it all came down to what was written and what had been said.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I still couldn’t pinpoint exactly when it all started to go wrong.” — Vallere, Diane Copy Share Image
“I said all the wrong things. Except when I was busy saying all the mean ones and in the end I hated everybody and… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Or rather, it’s a bunch of what happened that ends up being about nothing at all.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Everything has to do with everything else—you know that by now. So begin at the beginning, and it will lead to the end.” — Toby Neal Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? — John Barth Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years… — John Barth Copy Share Image
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… — John Barth Copy Share Image
