Quotes by John Updike

"It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."
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"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
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"Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face."
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"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
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"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
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Books by John Updike

  • Walden
  • 167,824 ratings
  • May 13th 2010 by Princeton University Press

    (first published August 9th 1854)

  • The Portrait of a Lady
  • 75,477 ratings
  • September 16th 1999 by Oxford University Press, USA

    (first published 1881)

  • Rabbit, Run
  • 56,686 ratings
  • August 26th 2010 by Random House

    (first published 1960)

  • Winesburg, Ohio
  • 30,869 ratings
  • March 2nd 1999 by Modern Library

    (first published May 8th 1919)

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John Updike
  • John Updike

  • Date of birth: March 18, 1932
  • Died: January 27, 2009
  • Born: in Shillington, Pennsylvania, The United States.

  • Description: John Hoyer Updike was an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest both won Pulitzer Prizes for Updike. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is well known for his careful craftsmanship and prolific writing, having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since the 1950s. His works often explore sex, faith, and death, and their inter-relationships.

    He died of lung cancer at age 76.

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