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Author - John Updike
Quotes by : John Updike
jealousy
While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat....
women
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting....
youth
Slim is queer and though Nelson isn't supposed to mind that he does. He also minds that there are a couple....
fiction
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people....
Material
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
american life
Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere....
marriage
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.
revenge
What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw....
mystery novels
He lost his appetite for reading. He was afraid of being overwhelmed again. In mystery novels people....
greatness
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our....
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