Quotes by John Cheever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the...

#Cities

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced...

#History, #Writers

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

#Joy, #Relationships