{"id":3470,"date":"2016-08-09T09:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:13:49","slug":"great-writers-on-writing-list-includes-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/08\/09\/great-writers-on-writing-list-includes-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Great writers on writing list includes Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-9.10.11-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3471\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-9.10.11-AM-172x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-09 at 9.10.11 AM\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-9.10.11-AM-172x300.png 172w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-9.10.11-AM.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>Updike was as prolific as he was critically acclaimed and popularly successful. He also gave a lot of interviews, so it&#8217;s no surprise that his name turns up on a compilation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/05\/03\/advice-on-writing\/\">&#8220;Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers,&#8221;<\/a> posted on the\u00a0<b><i>brainpickings<\/i><\/b>\u00a0blog by Maria Popova.<\/p>\n<p>Updike pops up twice:<\/p>\n<p><strong>63. John Updike: Writing and Death<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>70. John Updike: Making Money, How to Have a Productive Daily Routine, and the Most Important Things for Aspiring Writers to Know<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;In a country this large and a language even larger . . . there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updike was as prolific as he was critically acclaimed and popularly successful. He also gave a lot of interviews, so it&#8217;s no surprise that his name turns up on a compilation of &#8220;Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/08\/09\/great-writers-on-writing-list-includes-updike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3472,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}