Updike Quotes

9 quotes by 9 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
• Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is… — Martin Amis
• Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me… — Junot Diaz
• But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace
• 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 Updike Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Updike Quotes as follows:

• 1 Updike Quote by M H Abrams
• 1 Updike Quote by John Updike
• 1 Updike Quote by George Saunders
• 1 Updike Quote by Martin Amis
• 1 Updike Quote by Junot Diaz
• 1 Updike Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Updike Quote by Cynthia Ozick
• 1 Updike Quote by Lawrence M. Krauss
• 1 Updike Quote by Edward Abbey