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John Updike Quotes

By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sea Thought Enough Ice Dark Growing

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

Melissa McCarthy

Life Someone Hide Train Way Try

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

John Ortberg

Faith Great Living Settle Become Us

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

Robert Redford

Day Way First Years Did After

As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.

Sui He

Health Child Parents Me Young Poor

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Tom Robbins

Shoes Walk Yourself Sun Clouds You

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

Mickey Hart

Enough Know Said Important Minds

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

Louise Penny

Think Care Enough Award Successful

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Lorene Scafaria

Time Feel Person Precious Something

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Jordan Peterson

Literature Connection Biology Hard

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

Pierre Salinger

Day World President Different Been

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Creating Something Problem-Solving

Music is an important part of my writing process.

Peter James

Music Writing Process Important Part