John Updike Quotes
There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
Citations
Updike, John. "The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interview by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, vol. 45, Winter 1968.
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John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.