he muses, "is you get very self-conscious and think, 'This has to be good because it's by me,' and I better really work extra hard to make it good. . . ."[John] Updike, nonetheless, credits his productivity to practicality over perfectionism: "A novel always has some faults. Yeats said that prose never comes absolutely right the way poetry does."
from The Philadelphia Inquirer: The playful literary legend
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