Quotes by : John Barth

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or....

Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years....

Now many crises in people’s lives occur because the hero role that they’ve assumed for one situation....

people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and....

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount....

In life,” he said, “there are no essentially major or minor characters. To that extent, all fiction....

There's a great difficulty in makingchoices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude....

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking....