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John Updike
John Updike
American Novelist
Born: Mar 18, 1932
Died: Jan 27, 2009
About Life Like Me Think You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft Herman Melville James Baldwin Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States. John Updike
Time Best Long Long Time States Strip Comic Comic Strip Terry Impression Pirates United United States
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. John Updike
Intrinsic See Arise Talented Masterpiece Artist Might Create Doubly Reason Novel Why
Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him. John Updike
You Man Once Somehow Him Golf Dislike Hard Round Played
By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea. John Updike
Dark Thought Enough Visible Mars Shallow Features Had Polar Major Make Patch Improved Ice Century Sea Caps Growing Shrinking
The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding. John Updike
Farm Every Worn Bit Visualize Had House Fiction Little Molding Lived
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's. John Updike
Batter Encompass Pitcher Skills Baseball
Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity. John Updike
Mental Excess Permits Golf Pace Electric Measured Activity
For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. John Updike
Sense Our Books Intrinsic Some Identity Personal Personal Identity Us
It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. John Updike
Good Birdie Make After Shot Hard Tee
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses. John Updike
Happy Experience Living Had Since Most House Houses Years America American Lacks Happy Experience Thirteen
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. John Updike
You Improvise Must Tends Like House Closets Short
New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster. John Updike
Space Virtually City General Only Habitable Maintained New Disaster Within Private York New York Spaces Public
My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays host to extremes of the human condition: There is grandeur in that, and necessity. John Updike
Year Complaint Once Extremes Host New Likes Return Exile Condition Times York Human New York Loved Human Condition Grandeur Who Necessity Plays
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. John Updike
You Live Elsewhere Glad New Like Makes York Soviet Soviet Union New York Usefulness Union Universal
There's something very reassuring... about the written record. John Updike
Record About Something Written Very Reassuring
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
Myself Say Must Poetry Tend Write Exciting Over Look Most
I like short stories. John Updike
Like Short Stories Short Stories
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
Hope You Generation Living My Generation Could Writer Make Up Shop Maybe Which Last Set
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. John Updike
Architecture Mortar Substance Fictional Evanescent Bricks Consciousness
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. John Updike
Needs You Encouragement Society Mad Out Tell Only Arising Support Know Within Essential Your Notion
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. John Updike
Failure Criticism Become Kind Threatens Study Authors Psychoanalysis Literature
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. John Updike
Great Daily Others Our Great Extent Bearing Take Sociable Sane Extent
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. John Updike
Win Victory Ease Carrying He Majors Tiger Tiger Woods Always Narrow Been His Rocks Uphill Did Woods After Afternoon
Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. John Updike
Everywhere Eros Binds
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. John Updike
Time Dissolved Partnership By The Time
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal. John Updike
Pulse Philip Take Containing Mix Begins Room Whirl Noticed Roth
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