John Updike Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

  John Updike

  Leadership, Men, People

  John Updike (2012). “The Coup: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

• There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

  John Updike

  Quality, Way, Firsts

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.37, Random House

• Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

  John Updike

  Nice, Moving, Writing

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