John Updike Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

  John Updike

  Life, Faces, Fame

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 26, 2013

• Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise; Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.

  John Updike

  Sweet, Art, War

• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Input, Faces, Blind

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

• Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

  John Updike

  Dwarves, Littles, Fame

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