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John Updike Quotes

Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Topics

Writing End Golf You Say Boy

There are so many reasons to mark the passing of the great Joe Cocker - as many songs as he wrote, recorded and performed in his remarkable concerts. For me, Cocker was also the only performer who successfully covered and even improved on The Beatles.

Andrew Rosenthal

Great Me Mark Beatles Only Concerts

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

Andrew Gross

Life Beautiful Men King Book Think

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

Steven Gerrard

Think Name Enjoy Out Something

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Miguel de Cervantes

Good Mother Best Man Diligence Goal

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

Jordan Gavaris

Training Talent Doing You Acting

I tend to go for these half-little-boy characters.

Christine McVie

Go Characters Tend

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Bruce Schneier

Government Sister Reading Will Diary

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

Tituss Burgess

Theatre Library Whole Them Collect

'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Tim Crouch

Responsibility Choose Look Play How

How can you judge one film against another?

Nicolas Roeg

Judge You Against Film How Another

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.

Leonard Slatkin

Work Mind Late Nothing Forces Ear

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

Kevin de Leon

Momentum Hollywood Stay Here Going