Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“I had worked for a newspaper of sorts, word got around, and I became editor of our local school newspaper, The Drum.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring by John Updike When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens, And cups are freshly cut,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we… — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“[About John Updike's Rabbit Run] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight… — Chicago Tribune Copy Share Image
I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
“One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“When a printed book—whether a recently published scholarly history or a two-hundred-year-old Victorian novel—is transferred to an electronic device connected to the… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.” — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that’s why, of the Four, Google seems the most retiring, the most likely to remove itself from the limelight. “Gods don’t… — Scott Galloway Copy Share Image
“Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term 'anti-American' is usually used by the American establishment to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Flannery O'Connor had a certain genius. I don't think John Updike has, or Norman Mailer or William Styron, all of whom are… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“John Updike said: “The founding fathers, in their wisdom, decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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