Author: John Cheever

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

- 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

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