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
history political secret
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
god men
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
simple soul deeds
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 lay open the soul of the doer.
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.
past men thinking
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!
writing kind produce
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
artist generations scene
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
art skills passionate
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
sports hero stories
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
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.