“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”

— John Updike

Quoted in George Plimpton ed Writers at Work' Viking (1976)

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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009

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