Top 198 Quotes by John Updike

About John Updike

These are some quotes by American author John Updike Novelist, who lived between March 18, 1932 and January 27, 2009.

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

John Updike

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.

John Updike

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

John Updike

All love comes from the family.

All love comes from the family.

John Updike

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

John Updike

I don't think women are dumb.

I don't think women are dumb.

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

John Updike

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

John Updike

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

John Updike

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