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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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.
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In his field - where edge, zip and instant impact are sine qua non - Kidd is second to none.
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In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.
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In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
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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.
novelist
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.
trying
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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I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.
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I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
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In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.