John Barth Quotes

"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
- John Barth
(Related: Decision)

"The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man."
- John Barth
(Related: God, Bible, Man, Word)

"Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people."
- John Barth
(Related: People, Nothing, Value)

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."
- John Barth
(Related: Life)

"If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist."
- John Barth
(Related: God, Temperament, Want, World)

"More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations."
- John Barth
(Related: History)