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.
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.John Updike
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
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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
Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity.
John Updike
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
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