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
atheist intellectual atheism
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
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.
world fraud rounds
Fraud makes the world go round.
people good-times feels
Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
ugly gorgeous accents
Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.
bored planets so-bored
How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
done thirty havens
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.
doe feels urgent
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
animal shy looks
I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.
self consciousness turns
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.
erotic needs world
The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
country fiction united-states
The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.
ocean fields sun
Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.
cake way irony
irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.