Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
here, plainly, Updike is more interested in his personal filing-system than in his normal courteousness towards the reader.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)

In his memoir Self-Consciousness, John Updike wrote that he was offering his as “a specimen life, representative in its odd uniqueness of all the oddly unique lives in this world.”
Terry Gross • All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists



