Author: John Cheever

Quotes

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

- John Cheever

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

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

- John Cheever

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

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

- John Cheever

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

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

- John Cheever

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

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

- John Cheever

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.

- John Cheever

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

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

- John Cheever

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

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

- John Cheever

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

- John Cheever

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