John Updike's Quotes

John Updike's Quotes 53

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...

We are most alive when we're in love.

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity...

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf...

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled,...

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping...

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and...

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher...

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there...

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon...

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home,...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural...

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and...

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to...

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too...

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have...

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they...

Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...

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