Famous Quotes / John Updike
68 Quotations by John Updike
- 61. We are most alive when we're in love.
- 62. We hope the real person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail with ...
- 63. We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
- 64. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- 65. What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a wa ...
- 66. When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of K ...
- 67. When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we ar ...
- 68. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open se ...