John Updike Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough… — Edward Abbey
• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. — M H Abrams
• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
• A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all… — George Saunders
• Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice… — Cynthia Ozick
• Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike… — Lawrence M. Krauss

Who Wrote These John Updike Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 John Updike Quotes as follows:

• 1 John Updike Quote by Edward Abbey
• 1 John Updike Quote by M H Abrams
• 1 John Updike Quote by John Updike
• 1 John Updike Quote by George Saunders
• 1 John Updike Quote by Cynthia Ozick
• 1 John Updike Quote by Lawrence M. Krauss