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"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."
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John UpdikeSuspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than — John Updike
"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
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John Updike
John Updike
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John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
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"I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples."
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"That 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."
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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
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"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."
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"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
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