All John Updike Quotes
- My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays… Complaint
- New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. Elsewhere
- I like short stories. Like Short
- Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller. All
- My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it. Generation
- Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. Activity
- It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of… America
- How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. Accountability
- Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters… Careless
- Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. Activity
- The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog… Besmirched
- Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. Condescending
- Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately Diminishes
- We are most alive when we're inlove. Alive