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Donald Barthelme Quotes

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Donald Barthelme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989

Topics

Strong Fiction Here Fact Few Strain

Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don't have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They're out there. It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

Work Character People Think Someone

I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

Life Mistakes Me Think Learn Doing

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

Teacher Best Me Writing Reading

The GOP should be the GSP: the Grand Solutions Party. It should be about solutions, not talking points.

Talking Party Not Talking Solutions

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.

Eyes People Me Small Sorry Think

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

Louise Slaughter

Abortion Should Pregnancies Opposed

As an actor, I'd rather turn into Joffrey.

Dean-Charles Chapman

Actor Turn Rather

My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.

Clemantine Wamariya

Words Blue Yellow Green Night Pen

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life Imagination Effort Go Strange

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Love Learning Age Me Literature

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Growing Up Name You Growing Jail Up

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

Girl Mirror Stand Jump Little Been

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