John Updike Quotes


When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.


Citations

Plimpton, George. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." The Paris Review, no. 45, Winter 1968.

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John Updike
John Updike
  • Born: March 18, 1932
  • Died: January 27, 2009
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short-story Writer, Poet

John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.