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A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.
I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.
Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.
I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.
It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.
I've been at the place where it seems like the only way left is down.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.
The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.
I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.
Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.
The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.
Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses
I’d never known that anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.
A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.
Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.
If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.
But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
Every woman needed a husband, even if he did silence the song in her.