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Writers Quotes by John Updike
- Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…
- We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
- Writers’ lives break into two halves,
- The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at…
- Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
- Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.
- The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.
- 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…
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