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Write Quotes by John Updike
- 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…
- When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
- I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.
- Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
- I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.
- How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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