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
deal escapist fact fantastic lives novel people time writer
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.
appears history occasions past seeks time visionary
Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.
drops four muse poetry ran time
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
best comic strip time united
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
mention takes thinks time
I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'
time love-life stuff
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
time moon sun
Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.
time partnership dissolving
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
wisdom time ideas
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
time long figures
Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
time elements invaders
Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.
people good-times feels
Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.
born burned right-time
If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
criticism failure threatens
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.