The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. John Updike admirebecketteliot Change image and share on social
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. John Updike discoverinfancypaltry Change image and share on social
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on. John Updike lightmovephysical Change image and share on social
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. John Updike afternooncarryease 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
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
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. John Updike arnoldcartoonistgeniuse Change image and share on social