Quote by John Updike
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Patience
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Marriage
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning
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Poetry
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Poetry

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no ones done it this way. – Kenny Loggins

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Poetry

The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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Poetry

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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. – Plutarch

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Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. – Susan Lieberman

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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. – Frank Miller

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