John Updike Quotes

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

Jimmy Carr

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The thematically related 'Boys Don't Cry' and 'Brokeback Mountain' reinforced the narrative that gays like Mr. Shepard are regularly isolated for cruel and unusual attacks.

Andrew Breitbart

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The 'Newsies' fans are a whole different breed.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

FansWholeDifferentBreed

The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?

Steve Prefontaine

CareWhyShouldAthletesAboutThem

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Tracey Ullman

FunnyYouIdeaSomebodyNo Idea

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

Travie McCoy

PeopleMeSingingWorldSongFeel

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Marvin Gaye

FearPeaceSinSpiritMoreLimit

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Luc Ferrari

LifeSpringDevelopmentSoundOwn

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

PeopleSillyDoneNothingNeverGet

While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride.

Lisa Lutz

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It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

Janet Varney

GreatYouActorMoreSomethingWho

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Chester Himes

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