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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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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Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
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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.
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The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
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I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.
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Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.
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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.
The rich - they just live in another realm, really.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.