Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike
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
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