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
self examination fiction
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
kind cynic
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
golf together common-experience
Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.
easter boston eggs
Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.
writing trying busy
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
input faces blind
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
adventure knows
You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
atheist humanity intellectual
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
educational information stuff
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
rain would-be
Without rain, there would be no life.
rain would-be
Without rain, there would be no life.
flower giving natural
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
atheist intellectual atheism
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
monday couple inspiration
A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.