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John Updike Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Writing Limits Feel Find Know

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.

Experience People College Writing

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

Vision People Church Priorities You

If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

India Argentina Peru Been

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

You Admire Fiction Respond Own Sit

Once in a while, I'll slip and get off my vegan diet and have egg whites in the morning, that's a good source of protein while I'm out on the road. If I can feel my body starting to tire, those are good to keep you healthy.

Good Morning Road Diet You Body

In Wisconsin, we have got a lot of agricultural products that are exported. We have a lot of manufacturing products that are exported. I don't want to engage in a trade war.

War Want Manufacturing Engage Trade

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

Music Black Write Black Music Voices

To see hundreds of people come out in the cold at the University of Missouri to block a few so-called Christians who came to protest against me shows you how love conquers hate.

Love Hate People Me Cold You

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Lorraine Toussaint

Daughter Hope Experience Negative

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Day Men Miles Seen Would Boast

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

Life Me Fashion Process Nice Want

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