3 December 2020 John Cheever Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
3 December 2020 John Cheever I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss – you can’t do it alone.
3 December 2020 John Cheever Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
3 December 2020 John Cheever It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
3 December 2020 John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
3 December 2020 John Cheever The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Cheever When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
3 December 2020 John Cheever All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
