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
afraid child
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.
age certain sequels suppose
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
exciting poetry tend
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
tends
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
amount author colleges pinch poke tempting
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
glad soviet universal
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
almost animated family life movies needed pictures provide seemed
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.
life
My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
caps features growing improved patch polar shallow shrinking telescopes visible
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.
animator walt
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
electric excess measured pace permits
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.