You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that I wasn't an orator, unlike my mother and my grandfather, who both spoke beautifully and spoke all the time. Maybe I grew up with too many voices around me, as a matter of fact.
John UpdikeWe are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
John UpdikeBut for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike