Quotes from John Updike
For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.
- John Updike
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
- John Updike
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
- John Updike
The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.
- John Updike
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
- John Updike
Without rain, there would be no life.
- John Updike
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- John Updike
Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
- John Updike
Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
- John Updike
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.
- John Updike
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
- John Updike
I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.
- John Updike