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It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women. — John Updike

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin. — John Updike

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead. — John Updike

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems. — Jonathan Galassi

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

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end. — John Updike

New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left. — 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

Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him. — John Updike

First snow: it came this year late in November. — John Updike

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due. — John Updike

Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear. — John Updike

Being on TV is like being alive, only more so. — John Updike

His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill. — John Updike

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was. — John Updike

You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure ... — John Updike

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. — John Updike

All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else. — John Updike

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. — John Updike

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. — John Updike

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed. — John Updike

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. — John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines. — John Updike

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains. — John Updike

Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house. — John Updike

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over. — John Updike

What we need is progress with an escape hatch. — John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — 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

No act is so private it does not seek applause. — John Updike

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands. — John Updike

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe — John Updike

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes. — John Updike

I warned you, he says, I warned you, Harry, but youth is deaf. Youth is careless. — John Updike

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart. — John Updike