John Updike

John Updike (1932-2009), full name John Hoyer Updike, was a US novelist, poet, short-story writer, and art and literary critic. He was also winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

- The Centaur

• Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

- The New Yorker, May 20, 1985

Aharon Appelfeld