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
billy collins describe gently worlds writes
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.
green-world feels good-nature
In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
sex war world
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
running kids world
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
world want enough
We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything
love world want
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
country russia countries-of-the-world
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
world fraud rounds
Fraud makes the world go round.
erotic needs world
The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.
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.
artist world doe
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
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.