American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.
John Updike
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Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.
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We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
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