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
life rain sky
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
space religion stories
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
fun people dumb
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
needs looks doe
Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
thinking careers worry
So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.
writing constant rewriting
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
government illusion should
Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.
positive success dream
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
writing people personality
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
inspirational patience years
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
being-yourself people pay
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
life faces fame
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
writing humanity may
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
sane sociable
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.