John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updikewas an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.
The rich - they just live in another realm, really.
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There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.
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There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith
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It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
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It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.
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For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
eloquently
A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
artistic future
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.