John Updike Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

  John Updike

  Zoos, Children, Mirrors

• The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.

  John Updike

  Children, Boys, Differences

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.132, Random House

• As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

  John Updike

  Life, Self, Years

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.3, Random House

• Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

  John Updike

  Struggle, America, Childhood

  "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction". American Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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