Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Quote by John Updike

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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer...

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer...

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a...

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a...

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is...

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is...

How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take...

How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take...

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies;...

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies;...

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that...

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that...

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the...

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the...

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a...

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and...

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and...

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an...

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an...

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery....

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery....