John Updike Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

• We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

  John Updike

  Kings, Hero, Writing

• What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

  John Updike

  Past, Shining, Darkness

  John Updike (1996). “Pigeon Feathers, and Other Stories”, Ballantine Books

• Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

  John Updike

  Past, Pigs, Critics

• I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.

  John Updike

  Real, Past, Hay Fever

  London Observer, March 25, 1979.

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