Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. - John Updike 1 Share Now -
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. - John Updike 2 Share Now -
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. - John Updike 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. - John Updike 5 Share Now -
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. - John Updike 6 Share Now -
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. - John Updike 7 Share Now -
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. - John Updike 8 Share Now -
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. - John Updike 10 Share Now -
