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John Updike12 quotes
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. — John Updike · 1968To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. — John Updike · 1989Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the others players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters. — John Updike · 1960Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. — John Updike · 1983Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. — John Updike · 1989Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American? — John Updike · 1990All 12 quotes →Wallace Stevens2 quotes
Style is not something applied. It is something inherent, something that permeates. — Wallace Stevens · 1951A great deal of my poetry has been written while I have been out walking. — Wallace Stevens · 1954