John Updike Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009
Birthday: March 18
Death: January 27
Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.
source: 1985 In the New York Review of Books, 18 Jul.
topic: Encouragement, Government, Opera, Government Funding
