John Updike Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
John Updike quotes and sayings page 7 (deceased novelist born on Mar 18, 1932). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 125 we have for him.
“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”
“I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.”
“There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.”
“Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.”
“All love comes from the family.”
“The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.”
“A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.”
“A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.”
“A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.”
“Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.”
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