Quotes about John Updike

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have...

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and...

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for...

#John Updike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing...

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

#John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent,...

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

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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he...

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

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

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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring...

#John Updike