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John Updike quotes

American Novelist, Writer March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009

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John Updike quote: "That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to..."
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded. John Updike
No soul or locale is too humble to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction. Indeed, all other things being equal, the rich and glamorous are less fertile ground than the poor and plain, and the dusty corners of the world more interesting than its glittering, already sufficiently publicized centers. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer..."
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to..."
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. John Updike
John Updike quote: "When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward..."
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. John Updike
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. John Updike
...I glance around at the nest we have made, at the floorboards polished by our bare feet, at the continents of stain on the ceiling like an old and all-wrong discoverer's map, at the earnestly bloated canvases I conscientiously cover with great streaks straining to say what even I am begining to suspect is the unsayable thing, and I grow frightened. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing..."
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. John Updike
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. John Updike
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. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an..."
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Growth is betrayal."
Growth is betrayal. John Updike
John Updike quote: "As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry..."
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world... John Updike
John Updike quote: "the sea is always full, flat as a floor"
the sea is always full, flat as a floor John Updike
Whatever men make," she says, "what they felt when they made it is there...Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things. John Updike

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