I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.


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JOHN UPDIKE
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is ...
JOHN UPDIKE
On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly pu...
JOHN UPDIKE
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
JOHN UPDIKE
I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights...
JOHN UPDIKE
Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flour...
JOHN UPDIKE
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to ou...
JOHN UPDIKE
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another ...
JOHN UPDIKE
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watche...
JOHN UPDIKE
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
JOHN UPDIKE
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying
JOHN UPDIKE
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So t...
JOHN UPDIKE
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating noti...
JOHN UPDIKE
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they ...
JOHN UPDIKE
His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes...
JOHN UPDIKE
I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and...
JOHN UPDIKE
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, becaus...
JOHN UPDIKE
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just start...
JOHN UPDIKE
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of r...
JOHN UPDIKE
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main mater...
JOHN UPDIKE
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a super...
JOHN UPDIKE
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more...
JOHN UPDIKE
Ich habe in diesen Tagen viel über Liebe nachgedacht, und darüber, wie ich das Wort hasste und es ...
JOHN UPDIKE
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a sta...
JOHN UPDIKE
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted h...
JOHN UPDIKE
Harry has heard this before. Thelma's voice is dutiful and deliberately calm, issuing small family t...
JOHN UPDIKE
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating ...
JOHN UPDIKE
In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a d...
JOHN UPDIKE
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
JOHN UPDIKE
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...
JOHN UPDIKE
There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
JOHN UPDIKE
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like li...
JOHN UPDIKE
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extincti...
JOHN UPDIKE
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic ...
JOHN UPDIKE
I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside o...
JOHN UPDIKE
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although ...
JOHN UPDIKE
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
JOHN UPDIKE
My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and uns...
JOHN UPDIKE
He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red f...
JOHN UPDIKE
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
JOHN UPDIKE
I love you,” he says, and the fact that he doesn’t makes it true.
JOHN UPDIKE
Just middle-aged. Ideas used to grab me too. It's not that you get better ideas, the old ones just g...
JOHN UPDIKE