There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say. — John Updike Copy Share Image
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out… — John Updike Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a ton of information on the Web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than… — John Updike Copy Share Image
You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure... — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
