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Some Quotes by John Updike
- Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get…
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
- The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
- My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
- 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…
- 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…
- I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.
- For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
- For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
- A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing…
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