I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page
John UpdikeThat 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 UpdikeIf you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.
John UpdikeBeing able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John UpdikeI did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.
John Updike