John Updike Quotes
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. Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. We are most alive when we're in love. We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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