My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble. John Updike additionalcrumbledelicate share on social
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. John Updike complaintconditiondozen share on social
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is. John Updike christiandescribenovelist Change image and share on social
There's something very reassuring... about the written record. John Updike reassurerecordwrite Change image and share on social
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike artbabycoat Change image and share on social
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. John Updike developerfilmimmerse 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
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. John Updike agebringcrystallization Change image and share on social
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. John Updike adultbearconsume Change image and share on social
