John Updike Great Quotations

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.

He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.