Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike
Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike
Its been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that theyve got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. – Jane Campion