Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have …

John Updike
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Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
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Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more. ✨ John Updike (1984). The witches of Eastwick, Fawcett
Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? ✨ John Updike (2012). Self-Consciousness: Memoi … ▶
We are most alive when we're in love.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. ✨ John Updike (2009). More Matter: Essays and Criticism, p.185, Random House

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