Paris Review, 1967, cité par Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, « John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76 », The New York Times, (lire en ligne) : « I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me. »
Interview pour Jane Howard dans LIFE, 1966, cité par Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, « John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76 », The New York Times, (lire en ligne) : « My subject is the American Protestant small-town middle class. I like middles. It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. »
(en) Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, « John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Middle-Class Man, Dies at 76 », The New York Times, (lire en ligne)
Andrea Barrett, « Nibbled at By Neighbors », The New York Times, (consulté le ) : « One of my earliest memories is of seeing her at her desk. I admired the writer's equipment, the typewriter eraser, the boxes of clean paper. And I remember the brown envelopes that stories would go off in - and come back in. »
