New york Quotes by John Updike

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

— John Updike

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

— John Updike

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

— John Updike

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

— John Updike

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east…

— John Updike

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

— John Updike

My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not…

— John Updike

In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this…

— John Updike

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body…

— John Updike

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

— John Updike

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York,…

— John Updike

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east…

— John Updike

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down…

— John Updike