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
self examination fiction
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
green-world feels good-nature
In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
believe winning history
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
christian miracle hours
Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.
women race aliens
Women are an alien race set down among us.
sex war world
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
safe filmmaker edges
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
mean men spirit
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
writing should-have voice
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
writing something-new
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
attraction
Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
too-much affair asks
Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.
children boys differences
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.
past pigs critics
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.