John Updike

John Updike

18-Mar-1932


United States


Novelist

QUOTES BY John Updike


Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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