I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Although the ending was more John Carpenter than John Updike, Carroll hadn't come across anything like it in any of the horror… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and… — Brent weeks Copy Share Image
“John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
