There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist. John Updike artistbadlylive Change image and share on social
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 bodycapriconsciousness Change image and share on social
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. John Updike arnoldcartoonistgeniuse Change image and share on social
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it. John Updike generationhopelive 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
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. John Updike apparentauthorchoice share on social
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills. John Updike artistdevoteintelligible Change image and share on social
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. John Updike artcosmologistgratuitous Change image and share on social
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. John Updike ariseencouragementessential 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
