760 Quotes by John Updike

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

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.

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.