All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Quote by John Cheever

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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do...

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do...

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the...

Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the...

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced...

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the...

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed...

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed...

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose...

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose...

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say....

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say....

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and...

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and...

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the...

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the...

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman...

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman...

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the...

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the...

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not...

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not...

The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel...

The Moscow of these pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel...