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
trying steps medusa
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.
motivational inspiring education
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
lasts literature moments
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
success writing decay
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
teacher appreciation art
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
artist risk excess
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
life-is-too-short reading writing
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.
clue
You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.
mirrors errors perspective
When you look into a mirror it is not yourself you see, but a kind of apish error posed in fearful symmetry kool uoy nehW rorrim a otni ton si ti ˛ees uoy flesruoy dnik a tub rorre hsipa fo lufraef ni desop yrtemmys
zoos children mirrors
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
patience tunnels doubt
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
golf swings trying
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
kings hero writing
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
differences tragedy another-chance
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?