Quotes By John Updike

• Wisdom

  Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...

• Truth

  Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself like a woman who...

• Sports

  Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf...

• Society

  The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the...

• Religion

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

• Religion

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

• Poetry

  Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to...

• Patience

  A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

• Morning

  Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled...

• Marriage

  The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping...