John Updike Quotes about Literature

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

John Updike

Home, Car, Literature

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

John Updike

Inspiration, Literature, Materials

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

Self, Essentials, Literature

1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

John Updike

Jobs, Religion, Literature

John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.228, Random House

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

John Updike

Literature, Lasts, Moments

John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

John Updike

Truth, Men, Literature

"Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.