John Barth Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

  John Barth

  Writing, Kind, States

• The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

  John Barth

  Writing, Interesting, World

• 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.

  John Barth

  Betrayal, Writing, Men

• The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' - by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.

  John Barth

  Love, Reading, Mean

  "Chimera". Book by John Barth, 1972.

• 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.

  John Barth

  Writing, Years, Knowing

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