"I find in my own writing that..." - Quote by John Updike

“Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.”

“But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.”

“Women are an alien race set down among us.”

“Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.”

“There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.”

“Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.”

“Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.”

“I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?”

“It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”