My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it. John Updike Read Quote
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter’s hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. John Updike Read Quote
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. John Updike Read Quote
I’m trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being. John Updike Read Quote
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. John Updike Read Quote
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. John Updike Read Quote
