Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
John UpdikeI have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.
John UpdikeHoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.
John UpdikeUntil the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike