John Updike – Quotes Lover

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the...

#John Updike

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the...

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and...

#John Updike

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and...

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it...

#John Updike

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it...

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of...

#John Updike

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of...

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

#John Updike

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions,...

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their...

#John Updike

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their...

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

#John Updike

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

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself...

#John Updike

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself...

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have...

#John Updike

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have...

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

#John Updike

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

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

#John Updike

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

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

#John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

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

#John Updike

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

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

#John Updike

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

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

#John Updike

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

#John Updike

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has...

#John Updike

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has...

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would...

#John Updike

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would...