More From John Updike
- "Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."
- "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
- "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."
More In Love
- "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong”."― Sydney J. Harris
- "Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without."― Henry David Thoreau
- "Money doesn’t buy class."― Kiana Tom