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 think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.