I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.
From John Updike
In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.
Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
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