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Quotes from Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 — John Updike

1932–2009 United States

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

Introduction to The Best American Short Stories of 1984 (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Updike (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.