John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updikewas an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
safe filmmaker edges
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
writing should-have voice
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
writing something-new
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
attraction
Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
too-much affair asks
Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
children boys differences
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.
past pigs critics
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
selfish decision made
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
running animal cracks
Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.
loyalty failure men
All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
mother body letters
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
movie views imagine
Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.
architecture sometimes good-and-bad
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.
feelings made feels
I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.