Burdened Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burdened Duty Fiction Me Sense Sense Of Duty
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Physical attraction did its part to glue them together, but something stronger than sexual attraction sealed the bond. When men and women grow apart,… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
“The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We know that when women have access to voluntary family planning services, supplies and information, society sees enormous gains in each of the three… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody. — Michael Learned Copy Share Image
