“Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.”
— John Updike, “The Importance of Fiction,” in his Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism (New York: Knopf, 1991), p.86
“Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.”
— John Updike, “The Importance of Fiction,” in his Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism (New York: Knopf, 1991), p.86