Quote

One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

John Updike

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Updike
Age: 76 †
Born: 1932
Born: March 18
Died: 2009
Died: January 27
Art Critic
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
John Hoyer Updike
Life
Makes
Lover
Everything
Lovers
Even
Rest
Kind
Becomes
Things
Movie
Love
Nice
Anew
Think
Rather
Flat
Thinking
Funny
Flats

More quotes by John Updike

Image
Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.
John Updike
Image
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
John Updike
Image
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike
Image
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
John Updike
Image
A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.
John Updike
Image
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
John Updike
Image
I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.
John Updike
Image
How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
John Updike
Image
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
John Updike
Image
What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.
John Updike
Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.
John Updike
Image
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
John Updike
Image
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
Image
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
John Updike
Image
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
John Updike
Image
Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.
John Updike
Image
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
John Updike
Image
I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
John Updike
Image
My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
John Updike