All John Updike Quotes
- Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty. Burdened
- For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John… Agatha
- The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. Appetites
- The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary. Author
- A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to… Begins
- Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue. Airplane
- Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. Artistic
- There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. According
- Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring… Anti
- A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy of a sort;… Analytic
- Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and… All
- Nature refuses to rest. Nature
- Belief, like love, must be voluntary. Belief
- In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young. Becoming
- Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. Developer
- The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen.… Action
- If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number… Book
- Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies. Bodies
- As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us… Address
- All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. All
- People are incorrigibly themselves. Incorrigibly
- I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in… Almost Say
- I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. Belong
- Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. Binds
- All love comes from the family. All