John Updike Time Quotations

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

I should mention something that nobody ever thinks about, but proofreading takes a lot of time. After you write something, there are these proofs that keep coming, and there's this panicky feeling that 'This is me and I must make it better.'

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.