Updike/people

Famous quotes containing the words updike and/or people:

“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)