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.

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.