Marriage Quote by Ariel Levy

“marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. DJ”

— Ariel Levy

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

— Milan Kundera

“In 1970, Alix Kates Shulman, a wife, mother, and writer who had joined the Women's Liberation Movement in New York, wrote a poignant account…

— Susan J. Douglas

“As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

— Andrew Davidson

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I…

— Michelle Zauner

“[About John Updike's Rabbit Run] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight has implications…

— Chicago Tribune

I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold…

— Ann Patchett

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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…

— Victor Hugo

If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes…

— Carole Maso

“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…

— John Updike