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
people want compromise
Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
morning goes-on might
I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.
sheep people mourning
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.
jobs religion literature
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
procrastination vagueness comfort
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.
book thinking interesting
I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page
states quantum binary
Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.
beauty naked revolutionary
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
marriage teacher literature
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
book hands numbers
I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.
love fashion skulls
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
new-york believe people
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
self essentials literature
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
education school parent
School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.