More from John Updike
- “How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time,” Problems and Other Stories (1979)
- “They Thought They Were Better” in TIME magazine (21 July 1980)
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike on art
On J. D. Salinger, from a review of his Franny and Zooey, in Studies in J. D. Salinger: Reviews, Essays, and Critiques of The Catcher in the Rye and other Fiction (1963) edited by Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman, p. 231
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