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
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
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If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
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In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
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By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
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If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
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In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.
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I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.
Authors should be honored only for their works.
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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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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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Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.