John Updike Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

  John Updike

  Sunday, Golf, Swings

• The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

  John Updike

  Believe, Winning, History

  Rabbit, Run (1960) p. 160

• Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

  John Updike

  Art, Levels, Fields

  "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.

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