American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it.
John Updike
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The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
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A lot of the Koran does not speak very eloquently to a Westerner. Much of it is either legalistic or opaquely poetic.
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I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.
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I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.
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I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'
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I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.
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I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.
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I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in.
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A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
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In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.
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I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.
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