John Updike Quotes

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

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
-John Updike

"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."
-John Updike

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

"Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart."
-John Updike

"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
-John Updike

"Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better."
-John Updike in Creativity quotes.

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."
-John Updike in America quotes.

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

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
-John Updike in Art quotes.

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."
-John Updike in Grace quotes.

"The music was human; the static was natural."
-John Updike

"Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying."
-John Updike in Writing quotes.

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