More quotes by John Updike

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
"Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."
"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."
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."