American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
I have never liked haircuts.
John Updike
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Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.
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An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.
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My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.
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American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
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I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.
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