Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shor… — Quoted

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“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”

John Updike · Poetry

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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.

Truth

John Updike

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Education

John Updike

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art

John Updike

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Marriage