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John Updike


American
March 18, 1932
Novelist
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I like short stories.


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Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.


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All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.


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The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.


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Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.


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Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.


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Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.


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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.


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For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.


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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.


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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.


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New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.


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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
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Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.
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The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.
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