Quotes by John Barth

John Barth

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

Knowing

Writing

Years

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Allegiance

Loyalty

Men

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don’t choose, you don’t exist.

Existence

Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Artist

Generations

Scene

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Hero

Sports

Stories

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let’s say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it’s at that point you need coaching.

Coaching

Mistake

Needs

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 for others and be their secret operator — though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

Lovers

Secret

Wish

History – an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Events

History

Knaves

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Complicated

Simple

Talent

I don’t see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it’s going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

Chapters

Ends

Knowing

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Allegiance

Angel

Art

Artist

Betrayal

Bird

Boys

Chapters

Civilization

Coaching

Comfort

Complicated

Crafts

Deeds

Difficulty

Doe

Easier

Elsewhere

Ends

Energy

Events

Existence

Generations

Girl

God

Good Faith

Heart

Hero

History

Horror

Ifs

Innocence

Interesting

Kind

Knaves

Knowing

Life

Life Is

Lions

Loathing

Loses

Love

Lovers

Loyalty

Matter

May

Mean

Men

Mistake

Monsoons

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Quotes by John Barth

John Barth

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don’t choose, you don’t exist.

Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let’s say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it’s at that point you need coaching.

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 for others and be their secret operator — though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

History – an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

I don’t see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it’s going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

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