John Updike Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
John Updike quotes and sayings page 8 (deceased novelist born on Mar 18, 1932). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 125 we have for him.
“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
“I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.”
“I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.”
“I think books should have secrets, like people do.”
“I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.”
“In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.”
“My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.”
“New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.”
“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.”
“The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.”
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