John Updike

[hardblue]

A Romanian once said to me that Americans are always telling stories. I'm not sure this is as true as it once was. Where we once used to spin yarns, now we sit in front of the tv and receive pictures. I'm not sure the younger generation even knows how to gossip.

-- John Updike at The Paris Review (Winter 1968)

Comments

updike

[pigshitpoet]

absolutely for hemingway and miller!
and that other guy, fitzgerald..

; )

in the end, all life filters through paris..

new york is completely something else.

RE: updike

[hardblue]

So, why didn't you settle in France instead of Canada?

RE: updike

[pigshitpoet]

that was my first mistake..

i'm a lost soul,

RE: updike

[hardblue]

Just remember that we almost always tend to think that the road not taken was the best road.

RE: updike

[pigshitpoet]

yes, it's the 'roman'-tic way..