John Barth
John Barth
John Simmons Barthis an American writer, best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
stories life-is
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
interesting firsts world
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
self news self-knowledge
Self knowledge is always bad news.
professors ifs
If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!
world crafts want
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.
betrayal writing men
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.
mistake coaching levels
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.
ships sometimes skipper
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
self loathing self-loathing
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
writing years knowing
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.
lions world innocence
Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.
business connect diverse economic economy global helping leading local minority partners proud role ultimately
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loyalty men allegiance
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
existence
Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist,