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
truth men literature
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
respect literature cost
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
heart rocks literature
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
home car literature
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
lasts literature moments
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
two phrases literature
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
jobs religion literature
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
marriage teacher literature
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
self essentials literature
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
life experience literature
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
inspiration literature materials
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
criticism failure threatens
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
appeal primitive secretly television
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
arise artist create doubly intrinsic might novel reason talented
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.