Right. It saves you from giving up. This present novel that will be out — Villages — I several times thought it might be a bad idea and kind of abandoned it. So, it was really the habit — the habit of writing that kept me at it in the end. It was like a bad marriage. I mean, whatever. This is the wife I’m married to here, and I’m going to finish this book. Finishing it becomes the only way to get rid of it. So yes, it’s good to have a certain doggedness to your technique.
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John Updike
Novelist, poet and critic; twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
United States · 1932–2009
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American novelist, poet and critic, author of the four Rabbit novels, two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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