"Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a……" — John Updike
"Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Chicken Quotes
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What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do?…
— Dave Attell
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I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every…
— Ellen Barkin
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I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
— Todd Barry
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon…
— Mark Bittman
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This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my…
— Lewis Black
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I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year…
— Sandra Bullock
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
— Maya Angelou
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem…
— Erma Bombeck
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That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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