“I don't think women are dumb.” — John Updike Quote

“I don't think women are dumb.”

“Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.”

“In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.”

“What I say is, 'If you're so rich, how come you're so dumb?'”

“When Nas and AZ send you a track, you know it is serious business. Same with Styles P and Jadakiss - then it is serious business. But when you get a trap music track, you know it's time to dumb it down.”

“I'm not doing anything dumb; I'm not getting in trouble.”