American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.
John Updike
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Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
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As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
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We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
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All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
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People are incorrigibly themselves.
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Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.
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If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.
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I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.
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I don't think women are dumb.
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The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.
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I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
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