Donald Barthelme Quotes

Donald Barthelme — American Author born on April 07, 1931, died on July 23, 1989

This article is about the author, Donald Barthelme Jr. For his father, the architect, see Donald Barthelme... (wikipedia)

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

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

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme Quotes

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