Famous John Updike Quotes

  • There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. – John Updike

    There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.– John Updike

  • On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence. – John Updike

    On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.– John Updike

  • The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t-”whichever seems likelier to win an effect. – John Updike

    The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t-”whichever seems likelier to win an effect.– John Updike

  • Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. – John Updike

    Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. – John Updike

  • No act is so private it does not seek applause. – John Updike

    No act is so private it does not seek applause.– John Updike

  • Who’ll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want. – John Updike

    Who’ll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.– John Updike

  • Women, fire in their crotch, won’t burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. – John Updike

    Women, fire in their crotch, won’t burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.– John Updike

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

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