"I never made a decision in my..." - Quote by John Updike

“I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.”

“The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.”

“I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.”

“Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.”

“Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.”

“What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.”

“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.”

“Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.”

“When met with a problem I always ask myself what is the right thing to do and then I do it.”