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
aware
In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.
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.
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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.
aware
I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.
human trying
I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
field impact instant second sine
In his field - where edge, zip and instant impact are sine qua non - Kidd is second to none.
I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.
man reason women
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
artistic future
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
novelist
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
exile york
New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
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New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
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It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
activity becomes cares creative doer
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.