Author: John Updike

Quotes

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

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

- John Updike

All love comes from the family.

All love comes from the family.

- 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

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

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

- 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

We are most alive when we're in love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

- 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

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