John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

alone
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

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

knowledge
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

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

-John Cheever

wisdom

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