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title: "74 Writing Quotes By John Updike"
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> [Writing makes you more human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writing-makes-you-more-human/)

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> [I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-want-to-write-books-that-unlock-the-traffic-jam-in-everybody-s-head/)

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> [For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/for-whatever-crispness-and-animation-my-writing-has-i-give-some/)

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> [I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-was-trying-to-support-a-family-with-writing-i-didn-t-have-a-private/)

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> [I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-really-don-t-want-to-encourage-young-writers-keep-them-down-and-out/)

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> [Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writing-criticism-is-to-writing-fiction-and-poetry-as-hugging-the/)

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> [My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/my-life-is-in-a-sense-trash-my-life-is-only-that-of-which-the-residue/)

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> [When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/when-i-write-i-aim-in-my-mind-not-toward-new-york-but-toward-a-vague/)

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> [Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/does-fiction-artistic-writing-have-much-of-a-future-i-must-say-it-s/)

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> [The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-united-states-democratic-and-various-though-it-is-is-not-an-easy/)

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> [The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-creative-writer-uses-his-life-as-well-as-being-its-victim-he-can/)

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> [I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-didn-t-need-to-write-historical-epics-no-or-science-fiction-though/)

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> [So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/so-you-know-i-think-any-life-has-in-it-enough-material-enough-points/)

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> [Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/fiction-is-in-danger-of-becoming-a-kind-of-poetry-only-other-poets/)

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> [I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-think-my-first-story-sold-for-550-this-was-in-1954-and-it-seemed/)

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> [Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/imagine-writing-a-poem-with-a-sweating-worried-looking-boy-handing/)

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> [Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/prose-should-have-a-flow-the-forward-momentum-of-a-certain-energized/)

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> [Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writers-take-words-seriously-perhaps-the-last-professional-class-that/)

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> [I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-think-people-do-look-to-writers-to-tell-the-truth-in-a-way-that/)

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> [Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/seemed-to-me-important-in-writing-about-people-to-be-able-to-describe/)

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> [Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writing-fiction-is-like-music-you-have-to-keep-it-moving-you-can-have/)

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> [Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/fiction-is-very-greedy-it-will-take-all-you-know-and-then-some-the/)

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> [You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/you-write-because-you-don-t-talk-very-well-and-maybe-one-of-the/)

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> [I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-m-willing-to-show-good-taste-if-i-can-in-somebody-else-s-living/)

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> [A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/a-narrative-is-like-a-room-on-whose-walls-a-number-of-false-doors/)

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> [“On being conscious of being a writer: As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/on-being-conscious-of-being-a-writer-as-soon-as-one-is-aware-of-being/)

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> [“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writing-is-an-addiction-an-illusory-release-a-presumptuous-taming-of/)

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> [I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-complain-a-lot-that-s-one-way-of-coping-but-i-m-in-a-profession/)

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> [Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/most-writers-begin-with-accounts-of-their-first-home-their-family-and/)

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> [“The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-fiction-writer-is-the-ombudsman-who-argues-our-humble-dubious/)

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> [Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/young-or-old-a-writer-sends-a-book-into-the-world-not-himself/)

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> [How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/how-do-you-write-women-so-well-i-think-of-a-man-and-i-take-away/)

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> [Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/until-the-20th-century-it-was-generally-assumed-that-a-writer-had/)

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> [Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/being-able-to-write-becomes-a-kind-of-shield-a-way-of-hiding-a-way-of/)

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> [My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/my-generation-was-maybe-the-last-in-which-you-could-set-up-shop-as-a/)

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> [There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/there-s-always-something-new-by-looking-at-the-same-thing-over-and/)

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> [Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writing-doesn-t-require-drive-it-s-like-saying-a-chicken-has-to-have/)

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> [The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-measure-of-artistic-merit-is-the-length-to-which-a-writer-is/)

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> [There's something very reassuring... about the written record.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/there-s-something-very-reassuring-about-the-written-record/)

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> [Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/writers-may-be-disreputable-incorrigible-early-to-decay-or-late-to/)

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## More by John Updike

> [Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/life-is-a-roller-coaster-you-have-your-ups-and-downs-unless-you-fall/)

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> [Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/children-are-not-a-zoo-of-entertainingly-exotic-creatures-but-an/)

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> [I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-assume-my-stance-and-take-back-the-club-low-slowly-at-the-top-my/)

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> [The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-new-england-spirit-does-not-seek-solutions-in-a-crowd-raw-light/)

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> [I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-imagine-most-of-that-stuff-on-the-information-highway-is-roadkill/)

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> [Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/families-doing-everything-for-each-other-out-of-imagined-obligation/)

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> [“The fucking world is running out of gas.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-fucking-world-is-running-out-of-gas/)

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> [The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-theme-of-old-age-doesn-t-seem-to-fascinate-hollywood/)

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> [“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/the-mind-cannot-fall-asleep-as-long-as-it-watches-itself-only-when/)

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> [“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/it-was-somehow-wonderful-of-her-to-be-in-every-detail-herself/)

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> [In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/in-fiction-imaginary-people-become-realer-to-us-than-any-named/)

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> [“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/her-hair-had-been-going-gray-as-long-as-he-could-remember-she-bundled/)

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> [Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/possession-diminishes-perception-of-value-immediately/)

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> [I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/i-can-t-bear-to-finish-things-beyond-a-certain-point-they-get-heavy/)

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> [“Some people find fall depressing, others hate spring. I've always been a spring person myself. All that growth, you can feel Nature groaning, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/some-people-find-fall-depressing-others-hate-spring-i-ve-always-been/)

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