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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When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
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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.
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Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
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New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
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New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
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It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
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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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To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
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I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
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Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.
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The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
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I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'