John Updike Quotes

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MotherMyselfThoughtTryingKnow

I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.

Joel Edgerton

Sheep

I don't know what metalcore is. I know what rock n' roll is... It's not rocket science.

Andy Biersack

ScienceKnowRockRocketRoll

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Anatoly Karpov

LifeMy LifeChess

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

Matt Groening

PresentDoingTryEverythingElse

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

Merton Miller

InformationEvaluateGetFunction

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Steve Erickson

TimeBeginningStoryPresentEnd

I like what's obscure.

Steven Klein

ObscureLike

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

Tommy Chong

MusicLookingYouBoyMatterGuy

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Robert Fulghum

LifeWorkMoneyFoolYourselfFun

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

PowerTimeActionChanceForward

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

Jonathan Pryce

SchoolArtistLeftPainterWanted

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

WorkTimeGovernmentChildPushNew

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