Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike
It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike