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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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.
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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.
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One does not go to Moscow to get fat.
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Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
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Looking foolish does the spirit good.
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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.
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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.