About Quote by John Updike Download Open image “I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Always America Effort Tried Very Worth Write Writer Writing
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience. — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they are created.… — Shiree Mccarver 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
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
