A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
-John Updike
Before I became a writer, I assumed that some people (Nabakov, Updike, Bellow, etc.) were natural writers. They were born speaking in pithy prose, with taut sentences and interesting verb choice. But then, after reading all the usual Bellow masterpieces, I started reading his early novels.
While reading the New Yorker yesterday I came across this gem of a quote from the late John Updike, which eloquently expresses one of the ideas I was reaching for in my own Darwin Day post.
This is awesome.