John Updike Quotes

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

America is the big subject of the second half of the 20th century, tackled in one form or another by all the great American male writers. You could make a case for saying that it was the only game in town - from Bellow to Roth to Updike to Richard Ford - America was more or less explicitly the leitmotif.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.

To the world, you are America.

I love America, and I love to say that my family is American.

And I think Americans are phenomenal people.

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

Whenever people in that part of the world asked Patterson about the wonders of America, the possibilities and the hope of America, Patterson would say that it was a good and fine place but all the Americans were running it into the ground and that it would be a far better place if it had no Americans.

America, the country of my heart, my second home.

I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

We are Americans, and the future belongs to us.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

To me, you know, from my childhood I always had a fascination for United States.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

America is good enough for us.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.