Author: John Updike

Quotes

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

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 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.

- John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

- John Updike

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

- 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

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

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

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

- John Updike

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