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title: "35 John Updike Quotes by 34 authors"
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> [I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-hodgson/i-like-philip-roth-john-updike-and-richard-yates/)

[Roy Hodgson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-hodgson/)

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> [I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-patchett/i-kissed-john-updike-as-he-presented-me-with-an-award-it-wasn-t-the/)

[Ann Patchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-patchett/)

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> [ “\[About John Updike's Rabbit Run\] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chicago-tribune/about-john-updike-s-rabbit-run-the-author-fails-to-convince-us-that/)

[Chicago Tribune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chicago-tribune/)

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> [I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-dee/i-once-saw-john-updike-get-in-front-of-a-crowd-and-read-a-story-that/)

[Jonathan Dee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-dee/)

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> [John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-h-abrams/john-updike-is-always-fun-and-one-of-my-former-students-tom-pynchon/)

[M. H. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-h-abrams/)

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> [It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, John Updike... Eudora Welty -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-windley/it-wasn-t-until-i-started-to-read-short-stories-by-people-like-alice/)

[Carol Windley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-windley/)

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> [I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-zauner/i-read-lorrie-moore-and-marilynne-robinson-and-jhumpa-lahiri-and/)

[Michelle Zauner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-zauner/)

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> [“John Updike wrote that marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ariel-levy/john-updike-wrote-that-marriage-is-like-two-people-locked-up-with-one/)

[Ariel Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ariel-levy/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/a-john-updike-is-a-once-in-a-generation-phenomenon-if-that-generation/)

[George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/)

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> [“Flannery O'Connor had a certain genius. I don't think John Updike has, or Norman Mailer or William Styron, all of whom are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/flannery-o-connor-had-a-certain-genius-i-don-t-think-john-updike-has/)

[Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/)

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> [In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lithgow/in-1995-i-proposed-the-harvard-arts-medal-the-idea-was-to-celebrate/)

[John Lithgow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lithgow/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/great-books-are-readable-anyway-dickens-is-readable-jane-austen-is/)

[Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/)

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> [If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carole-maso/if-writing-is-language-and-language-is-desire-and-longing-and/)

[Carole Maso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carole-maso/)

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> [ \[Kurt\] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-dirda/kurt-vonnegut-was-a-writer-whose-great-gift-was-that-he-always-seemed/)

[Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-dirda/)

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> [Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-m-krauss/neutrinos-alone-among-all-the-known-particles-have-ethereal/)

[Lawrence M. Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-m-krauss/)

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> [“Perhaps that’s why, of the Four, Google seems the most retiring, the most likely to remove itself from the limelight. “Gods don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-galloway/perhaps-that-s-why-of-the-four-google-seems-the-most-retiring-the/)

[Scott Galloway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-galloway/)

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> [I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-cartwright/i-love-john-updike-immoderately-i-am-profoundly-shocked-that-he-has/)

[Justin Cartwright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-cartwright/)

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> [“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxane-gay/narratives-about-certain-experiences-are-somehow-legitimized-when/)

[Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxane-gay/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-carr/when-a-printed-book-whether-a-recently-published-scholarly-history-or/)

[Nicholas Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-carr/)

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> [“Although the ending was more John Carpenter than John Updike, Carroll hadn't come across anything like it in any of the horror…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-hill/although-the-ending-was-more-john-carpenter-than-john-updike-carroll/)

[Joe Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-hill/)

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> [“I had worked for a newspaper of sorts, word got around, and I became editor of our local school newspaper, The Drum.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-had-worked-for-a-newspaper-of-sorts-word-got-around-and-i-became/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-boutique-man-of-letters-a-smug/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/an-old-essay-by-john-updike-begins-we-live-in-an-era-of-gratuitous/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [“Anti-Americanism is in the process of being consecrated into an ideology. The term 'anti-American' is usually used by the American establishment to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/anti-americanism-is-in-the-process-of-being-consecrated-into-an/)

[Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/)

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> [“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brent-weeks/the-truth-is-everyone-likes-to-look-down-on-someone-if-your-favorites/)

[Brent weeks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brent-weeks/)

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> [“The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring by John Updike When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens, And cups are freshly cut,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-sometime-sportsman-greets-the-spring-by-john-updike-when-winter-s/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/there-s-something-in-every-atheist-itching-to-believe-and-something/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

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> [“For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dani-shapiro/for-years-we-had-the-persistent-sensation-in-our-life-and-art-john/)

[Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dani-shapiro/)

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> [“One recalls John Updike’s argument: the only evidence for the existence of God is the collective human yearning that it should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-amis/one-recalls-john-updike-s-argument-the-only-evidence-for-the/)

[Martin Amis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-amis/)

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> [“John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-lippman/john-updike-in-that-book-you-gave-me-he-said-the-dead-make-space-do/)

[Laura Lippman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-lippman/)

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> [“John Updike said: “The founding fathers, in their wisdom, decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/john-updike-said-the-founding-fathers-in-their-wisdom-decided-that/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-ozick/among-contemporaries-i-hugely-admire-alice-munro-our-chekhov-saul/)

[Cynthia Ozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-ozick/)

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> [I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/i-could-never-write-about-the-sort-of-people-john-cheever-or-john/)

[Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/)

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> [Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/incidentally-i-am-honorary-president-of-the-american-humanist/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garrison-keillor/when-you-re-in-your-20s-your-30s-even-you-have-at-least-i-had-vast/)

[Garrison Keillor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garrison-keillor/)

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                        "text": "John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.",
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                        "text": "“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and German, you can look down on everyone. If your favorites are all Oprah Book Club books, you can at least look down on mystery readers. Mystery readers have sci-fi readers. Sci-fi can look down on fantasy. And yes, fantasy readers have their own snobbishness. I’ll bet this, though: in a hundred years, people will be writing a lot more dissertations on Harry Potter than on John Updike. Look, Charles Dickens wrote popular fiction. Shakespeare wrote popular fiction—until he wrote his sonnets, desperate to show the literati of his day that he was real artist. Edgar Allan Poe tied himself in knots because no one realized he was a genius. The core of the problem is how we want to define “literature”. The Latin root simply means “letters”. Those letters are either delivered—they connect with an audience—or they don’t. For some, that audience is a few thousand college professors and some critics. For others, its twenty million women desperate for romance in their lives. Those connections happen because the books successfully communicate something real about the human experience. Sure, there are trashy books that do really well, but that’s because there are trashy facets of humanity. What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”",
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                        "text": "“The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring by John Updike When winter's glaze is lifted from the greens, And cups are freshly cut, and birdies sing, Triumphantly the stifled golfer preens In cleats and slacks once more, and checks his swing. This year, he vows, his head will steady be, His weight-shift smooth, his grip and stance ideal; And so they are, until upon the tee Befall the old contortions of the real. So, too, the tennis-player, torpid from Hibernal months of television sports, Perfects his serve and feels his knees become Sheer muscle in their unaccustomed shorts. Right arm relaxed, the left controls the toss, Which shall be high, so that the racket face Shall at a certain angle sweep across The floated sphere with gutty strings—an ace! The mind's eye sees it all until upon The courts of life the faulty way we played In other summers rolls back with the sun. Hope springs eternally, but spring hopes fade.”",
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                        "text": "There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989 A religion without the element of mystery would not be a religion at all. ~Edwin Lewis It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries. ~Karl Menninger Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ~Arthur Schopenhauer All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. ~Cathy Ladman No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. ~William Ernest Hocking The church is the great lost and found department. ~Robert Short I speak not of men's creeds - they rest between Man and his Maker. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage God made s",
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