What did John Updike mean by: Writing doesn’t require drive. It’s like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg. - John Updike Writer Copy
+ The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Religion, Stories, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Adultery, Constraints, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Fashion, Love, Mirrors, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ The great thing about the dead, they make space. Feraz Zeid, August 10, 2023December 12, 2023, John Updike, Death, Great Things, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ It’s not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Education, Learn, Pain, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023December 12, 2023, John Updike, Faces, Fame, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe. Feraz Zeid, November 3, 2023December 26, 2023, John Updike, Inspiration, Movie, Safe, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Updike, Golf, Swings, 0 - John Updike Writer
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
