I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.

Quote by John Cheever

Topics: Cities Quotes

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

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...

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...

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 do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the...

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the...

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because...

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because...

Peace is inside you. Wherever you go, peace goes with you. When you climb on...

Peace is inside you. Wherever you go, peace goes with you. When you climb on...

Sometimes I think I love him too much.

Sometimes I think I love him too much.