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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

John Updike
Country, Writing, Who Cares

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

John Updike
Country, Countries Of The World, Russia
John Updike (2012). “Bech: A Book: A Novel”, p.13, Random House

There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.

John Updike
Basketball, Baseball, Country
John Updike (2006). “Rabbit Redux”, p.81, Penguin UK

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

John Updike
Country, Fiction, United States
1995 Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels, introduction.

I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or restraints. So, insofar as we can remain a free country that allows for the interplay of personal energies. I think this is still a country that is not only working towards a dream, but actually is the dream in action.

John Updike
Country, Dream, Believe
Source: www.achievement.org

One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

John Updike
Country, Sweden, Canada

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

John Updike
Country, Law, Smell
John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.25, Random House

I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

John Updike
Country, Athlete, Trying

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