| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 7508 |
| AUTHOR: | Philip Roth |
| QUOTATION: | Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Quoted in George Plimpton ed Writers at Work Viking 86 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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