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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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 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...

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater...

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater...

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...

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...

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving...

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving...

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...

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...

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle...

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle...

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction...

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction...

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...

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 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...

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

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...

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,...

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited,...

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

To bury grief plant a seed.

To bury grief plant a seed.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.