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" Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family. "

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" John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying. "

" Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. "

" All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. "

" Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. "

" What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. "

" The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. "

" An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. "

" I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel. "

" Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. "

" We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. "

" I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside of the ones that I may live in. "

" It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie. "

" In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity. "

" I like short stories. "

" Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. "

" I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest. "

" The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me. "

" Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out. "

" Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house. "

" A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. "

" Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies. "

" Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. "

" I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life. "

" A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction. "

" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "

" Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever. "

" It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation. "

" Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. "