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
men women
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.
man reason women
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
women race aliens
Women are an alien race set down among us.
women race aliens
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.
women men turns
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
women world texture
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
mother women world
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
careless class editors ideal lap last malevolent meddling reviewers steer struggle words writers
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.
empowered sit
When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.
There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
architecture mortar
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
afraid child
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.
age certain sequels suppose
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.