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.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.