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Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
— John Updike
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
— John Updike
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
— John Updike
John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
— Jonathan Galassi
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
— John Updike
Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
— John Updike
My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.
— John Updike
It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.
— John Updike
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
— John Updike
I don't recall inclement weather on a fair day.
— John Updike
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
— John Updike
I'm a dull person.
— John Updike
Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.
— John Updike
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
— John Updike
Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography.
— John Updike
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
— David Foster Wallace
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
— John Updike
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
— John Updike
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
— John Updike
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
— John Updike
(on Updike) Has the son of a bitch ever had one unpublished thought?
— David Foster Wallace
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
— John Updike
The muttered hint, "Remember, you have a stroke here," freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.
— John Updike
He had mistaken the two of them for one and entrusted to her this ghost of his alone. A mistake married people make.
— John Updike
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
— John Updike
Yes, there is a ton of information on the Web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
— John Updike
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
— John Updike
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
— John Updike
Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.
— John Updike
A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.
— John Updike
But the nightmares were accurate enough: we are like a swarm of mosquitoes, crazy with thirst and doomed to be swatted.
— John Updike
Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
— John Updike
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.— John Updike
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
— John Updike
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
— John Updike
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
— John Updike
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
— John Updike
Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.
— John Updike
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
— John Updike
My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
— John Updike
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
— John Updike
We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe
— John Updike
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
— John Updike
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
— John Updike
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
— John Updike
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
— John Updike
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
— John Updike
Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility.
— John Updike
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
— John Updike
Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.
— John Updike
