John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.. American novelist poet short story writer art critic and literary critic
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We are most alive when we're in love. Go to Quote / Comment
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real suc... Go to Quote / Comment
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle. Go to Quote / Comment
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. Go to Quote / Comment
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. Go to Quote / Comment