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
children
My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.
depress looked picked
I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
caps features growing improved patch polar shallow shrinking telescopes visible
By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.
activity becomes cares creative doer
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
trying
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
aware
I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.
human trying
I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
art
In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.
novelist
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
number paper worst
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
overhead smash
In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
man reason women
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.