Quotes by John Updike

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

#Art, #Artists

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

#Religion

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

#Memories

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

#Men And Women, #Writing

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their...

#Writers

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't...

#Parents

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and...

#Hollywood

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

#Government

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

#Government

We are most alive when we're in love.

#Love

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

#Dreams

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.

#Television