John Updike Quotes

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.

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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I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Robert M. Pirsig

LifeMindDyingWastedBecause

It's a really bad idea to be in a band and get involved with each other.

Ann Wilson

BadBandInvolvedGetIdeaBad Idea

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'

Amy Klobuchar

MemoriesPoliticsRedDressMe

So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote.

Sia

PeopleSongThreeWillWriteGoing

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Rory Bremner

WordsMindMeReadingEndSame

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

Mo Ibrahim

PoliticsI AmCitizenPoliticianAm

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

Jonah Hill

WorkLearnDirectorWatchSitSet

When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

Diane von Furstenberg

BeautifulPeopleEndHotelYouKnow

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

Cokie Roberts

SocietyWayCivicOurReally

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Clarence Thomas

BlackThinkYouWhiteAngelsWere

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

Bre Pettis

JewelryBoldMachinesTargets

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

Brett Ratner

GoodMyselfDayPeopleThinkFeel

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