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John Updike Quotes

American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

Golf Mental Activity Pace Measured

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

Light Lonely Neighborhoods Sidewalk

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

College Wealth Harvard Square Away

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

Work Speak Speech Back Sometimes

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

Art Universe Always Something Seems

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

Serious Others More Lovely Seem

Nature refuses to rest.

Nature Rest Refuses

When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

Mother Age Tree Parents Me Early

In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.

Die Young Becoming Icon Useful

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

Memory Film Immersed Developer

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Good Light Beginning Mind Ending

If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

Book True Will Worst Predict Things

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