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That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.
— 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
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
— John Updike
John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
— Jonathan Galassi
I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.
— John Updike
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
— Nicholson Baker
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.
— John Updike
Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
— 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
Geography! That's something they teach in the third grade! I never heard of a grownup studying geography.
— John Updike
First snow: it came this year late in November.
— John Updike
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
— John Updike
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
— John Updike
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.
— John Updike
Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog
— Pamela Paul
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
— John Updike
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
I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.
— Caroline Thompson
It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.
— 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
I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.
— John Updike
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
— John Updike
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
— 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
Music affected him as women's talking did, when there was no interceding in it. He was an instructor, not a listener.
— John Updike
It's the strange thing about you mystics, how often your little ecstasies wear a skirt.
— John Updike
You are still you. The U.S. is still the U.S., held together by credit cards and Indian names
— John Updike
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
— John Updike
Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
— John Updike
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
— John Updike
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.
— Florence King
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
— John Updike
That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God
— John Updike
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
— John Updike
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
— John Updike
He sounds to himself, saying this, like an impersonator; life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
— John Updike
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
— John Updike
What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
— John Updike
You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure ...
— John Updike
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
— John Updike
Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.
— John Updike
My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.
— John Updike
My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
— 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
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
Love makes the air light.
— John Updike
Nature refuses to rest.
— John Updike
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
— 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
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
— John Updike
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.
— John Updike
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
— John Updike
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
— John Updike
