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
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By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.
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My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
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Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.
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Midas's Law: Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately
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I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
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Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
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My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.
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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.
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Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
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I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.