Quotes By John Updike

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. by John Updike

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

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. by John Updike

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. by John Updike

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. by John Updike

We are most alive when we're in love. by John Updike

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. by John Updike

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

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. by John Updike

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. by John Updike

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. by John Updike

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. by John Updike