John Cheever – Quotes Lover

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

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

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

#John Cheever

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...

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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

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

#John Cheever

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.

#John Cheever

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