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
depress looked picked
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
field impact instant second sine
In his field - where edge, zip and instant impact are sine qua non - Kidd is second to none.
aware
In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.
number paper worst
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
golf remember-you remembers-you
The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
zero writing thinking
I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.
acceptance self perfection
Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.
memories people lovely
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
sane sociable
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
morning goes-on might
I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
being-yourself people pay
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
positive success dream
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
states quantum binary
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
inspirational patience years
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.