Author: John Updike

Quotes

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

- John Updike

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

- John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

- John Updike

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

- John Updike

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

- John Updike

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike

All love comes from the family.

All love comes from the family.

- John Updike

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

- John Updike

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

- John Updike

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