The Early Stories, 1953-1975 Quotes

“children are not our creations but our guests, people who enter the world by our invitation but with their smiles and dispositions already prepared in some mysterious other room.”
― John Updike, The Early Stories

“But my main debt, which may not be evident, was to Hemingway; it was he who showed us all how much tension and complexity unalloyed dialogue can convey, and how much poetry lurks in the simplest nouns and predicates.”
― John Updike, The Early Stories