Showing posts with label John Updike. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Secrets

“I think books should have secrets, like people do. I think they should be there as a bonus for the sensitive reader or there as a kind of subliminal quavering. I don’t think that the duty of the twentieth-century fiction writer is to retell old stories only.”

—John Updike