John Updike
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES LAURA LIPPMAN WILLIAM NICHOLSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. Th... ALAN CHEUSE ERMA BOMBECK MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA TSVETAEVA KARIN SLAUGHTER PHILIP PULLMAN NICK PARK I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things as well. SAOIRSE RONAN They were better than us in both 18-yard boxes. COLIN LEE One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboar... HUGO HAMILTON M. H. ABRAMS We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL KEVIN ZEESE C. JOYBELL C. CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as wri... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The problem with these types of witnesses is they can collapse like wet cardboard boxes. Inmate test... GERALD TREECE If he had not moved us both further up the road, I dread to think what would have happened. ARTHUR GRIFFITHS We're seeing all kinds of boxes, cardboard, bags, wrapping paper and packaging materials, and soon w... PAULA CLARK MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA We took them items ranging all the way from refrigerators to sofas, bicycles, computers, washers and... MARCIA DANCHISE DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I can't say enough good things about John. I don't know how they are going to replace him, and I thi... DON SHELDON I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and ... JOHN KEEGAN People get comfortable with the way you arethey have formed their opinion of you based on everythi... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 BONO THOMAS HUXLEY We lifted heavy weight, very heavy weight, in low repetitions, but the key was being able to do it i... LAUVE METCALFE I don't know a lot about them. I know they're a good team. But I think we match up OK. They have qui... JEFF FROELICH As brutal as it may sound, I think that a policy where by people actually repay the HECS debt if the... BERNARD SALT Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ... DON SCARDINO PETER SHAFFER VERA NAZARIAN We weren't Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. I was ok with that, I thought. We had things they didn't... BRITTANY CAVALLARO A 6-month-old is going to put a book in their mouth, which is fine ? this is why they make cardboard... DR. DAHLIA HALL A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY MARIE LU Chinese customers are quite picky about the interior design of the yachts. They want wooden floors, ... BIAN LIEQIANG MALALA YOUSAFZAI I don't think you'll see a lot of change. It's not like John is moving into a situation that's broke... DON LOGAN MATT HAIG Oh, you bet they are, Bob. I mean, they understand that this is a real negative for them and that th... GLORIA BORGER DAVE BARRY UNKNOWN Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basi... VINT CERF WARREN BUFFETT You want to make sure that heavy objects such as mirrors and pictures are hung with closed hooks on ... DOUG SANDY SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Joh... CAROL WINDLEY I'm glad they are out. I know people know where the checkpoints are and can avoid them, but I still ... JOE WEBB AUDRE LORDE URSULA K. LE GUIN People are eating out of (non-working) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a litt... GEORGES BENJAMIN FLANNERY O'CONNOR GAUTAMA BUDDHA What's impressive about the guy is he's stayed flexible. He's given up on some battles and moved on ... VIC FAZIO The idea behind these boxes is that they are useful as tables, bedside stands, or even as chairs, an... RAPHAEL COHEN We had a bunch of opportunities to win the game in the second half. We turned the ball over four tim... BRIAN SEYMORE WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING If that truck had rolled off the bridge and into the creek, it's heavy enough that it would have cru... TIM WILSON ANNIE LEIBOVITZ EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON ELLEN DEGENERES My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they... DARREN SHAN CATE BLANCHETT You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find... ACKSHAT DEOLI ERMA BOMBECK Mill River beat up on us. They out-physicalled us and out-sized us and out-quicked us in just about ... CHRIS HUGHES MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM This will make the driver think twice when he thinks about drinking or anything. You know he'll see ... CHARLES WILLIAMS YUVAL NOAH HARARI BARBARA EHRENREICH JOHN HUGHES We are certainly pleased in obtaining this tentative agreement with the NBA, as it addresses importa... LOUISE SIMARD Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. WILLIAM ADAMS (EXPLORER) The wins by Alex and John were really the story of the match. If they don't win, it's 3-3 going into... ANDY BRUNNER The irony is that for years the collection was just left in cardboard boxes. It's only when they rat... HUGH THOMSON CAROLYN WELLS BILL BRYSON PATRICK ROTHFUSS DEBASISH MRIDHA FRANZ KAFKA Our daughter wanted to talk about some of the topics that the books brought up, such as menstruation... HELEN EGGER After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It w... FLORENCE BACK WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... L.J. SMITH MONTY PYTHON CANDACE BUSHNELL And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY There are many, many new laws -- things that are on the books that we don't all understand or know a... ANNETTE SINGLETARY JOHN GRISHAM NORMANI KORDEI I think it's a good thing - as long as they, hopefully, stir up some of the management. It seems lik... DEBBIE SCOTT KATE MIDDLETON
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John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike... 
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled wi... 
Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... 
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog ... 
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... 
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If ... 
Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into th... 
Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to inven... 
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another for... 
The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing... 
In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the th... 
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency an... 
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as... 
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. 
God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo... 
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. 
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he'... 
The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together... 
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. 
John glances at me. “We’re not going to make it.” Between us, Day has faded into a semiconscio... 
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. 
If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process int... 
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. 
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. 
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. 
Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of
other treasure belonging to the de... 
You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and t... 
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor... 
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... 
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... 
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the ... 
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but ... 
Hark, the world so loud,
And they, the movers of the world, so still! 
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they... 
Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about. 
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popula... 
Listen, Google,’ I will say, ‘both John and Paul are courting me. I like both of them, but in a ... 
I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of inter... 
My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forwa... 
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... 
Whatever happens in the world - whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over - eventual... 
Some days simply lay on you like stones. 
You are changing the world with your thoughts, actions, and creation. 
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doe... 
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things 
I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. 
And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... 
I make mistakes. That's what I do. I 
Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours ... 
I think that a lot of the time, we get in our own heads and make up what other people are thinking, ... 
I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are lon... 
When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of t... 
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Gree... 
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.