Top 15 John Updike Quotes

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

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