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

Quote by John Cheever

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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 gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down...

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down...

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...

My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My...