A Quote by John Updike

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

John Updike

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders.

Leymah Gbowee

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

Jon Stewart

When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.

Bill Ford

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

Alexander Volkanovski

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

Ray Bradbury

"It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day." "It must come sometimes to "jam to-day,""Alice objected. "No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know." "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing."

Lewis Carroll

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

Mortimer Adler

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

Zig Ziglar

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Chogyam Trungpa

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Larry King

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

Mercedes Schlapp

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

Steve Wynn

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

Andreas Moritz

It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.

George Stevens

Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like. Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, "He sounds too Jewish." Or, "He's too tough, he's off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door."

Billy West

Years and years ago, I said I did not want to write academic books. I want to write books that are in the language of the common person so that Joe, who didn't even go to college, can sit down and read my book and get it and apply it to his life.

Gary Chapman

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