American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
John Updike
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
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For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
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Authors should be honored only for their works.
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Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.
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My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.
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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.
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The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.
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The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
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A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
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I'm a dull person.
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In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
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