Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one. John Updike boyendgolf Change image and share on social
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. John Updike artisticfictionfuture Change image and share on social
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. John Updike agebasicallydull Change image and share on social
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. John Updike appetitedreamfellow Change image and share on social
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. John Updike badbookcodex Change image and share on social
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses. John Updike americaamericancentury Change image and share on social
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. John Updike enableignorejob Change image and share on social
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. John Updike annabovarycelebrity share on social
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. John Updike arnoldcartoonistgeniuse Change image and share on social