Quotes by John Updike

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...

#John Updike

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,...

#John Updike

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

#John Updike

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

#John Updike

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

#John Updike

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

#John Updike

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

#John Updike

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

#Adventure, #Art

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

#Biography, #Poetry

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware...

#Celebrity