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

Quote by John Cheever

Topics: John Cheever Quotes

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....

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...

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

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...

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...

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...

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.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a...

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Patience is the art of hoping.

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you...

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you...