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Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

— John Updike

I like short stories.

— John Updike

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.

— John Updike

The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.

— John Updike

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

— John Updike

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

— John Updike

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

— John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

— John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

— John Updike

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

— John Updike

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and…

— John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

— John Updike

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and…

— John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read.…

— John Updike

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but…

— John Updike