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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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.
A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
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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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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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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
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Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.
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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.
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Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
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Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.
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A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
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There is this quality in things, of the Right was seeming Wrong at first. To test our faith