"Fiction is burdened for me with a..." - Quote by John Updike

“...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”

“How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?”

“A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.”

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”

“No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”

“There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism.”

“There is no rule on how to write.”

“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”