Quotes by : John Updike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.....

Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was....

We are most alive when we're in love.

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day’s activities have been, when you wake in the middle of....

One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

Know Thyself, a wise old Greek once said. Know Thyself. Now what does this mean, boys and girls? It means,....

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.....

In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical....

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever....