The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.
From John Updike
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.
Nature refuses to rest.
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
I have never liked haircuts.
America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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