John Updike Quotes

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveTimePeopleFaceYouPlot

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

Jim Broadbent

StartYouActingRidiculousTalk

It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essential relationships that I find to be as important to nurture as any other relationship in your life. Without your health, you have nothing.

Joanna Garcia

LifeRelationshipHealthGreatYou

The arrogance of liberal progressives is that they're just a lot smarter and better angels than the Stalins and the Chavezes and the Castros of the world, and if we give them all the control, and they control your life, they're going to do a great job of it. Well, it just isn't true.

Ron Johnson

LifeGreatJobControlWorldBetter

The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That's just a normal use.

Mo Farah

I AmChildNormalMedicationJust

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

Lisa Ling

RespectCultureBetterEldersAsian

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Dennis Brown

FeelEnvironmentMomentumYouLose

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

Donald Hall

LoveHateMeSayWriteWho

'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for that.

Chelsea Kane

StarsGratefulMeDoorsDancingLot

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Clifford Geertz

BeautyThinkingEleganceWorthWay

Oftentimes, when a movie turns into a series, you never retain the creative auspices. You buy the idea, you buy the franchise, and then you bring in a whole new creative team and copy the tone or sensibility.

Bonnie Hammer

CreativeTeamYouCopyNewNever

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Bob Hawke

GovernmentStupidManagementThinking

I like to mix it up with vintage '70s stuff and I like to wear a lot of guys' clothes. As far as night stuff, I have my stylist direct me in the right way. We have a vintage glamour, age-appropriate, pretty thing going.

Brittany Snow

MeNightVintageClothesWayRight

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Updike