Quotes by : John Cheever

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

Then there was a fine noise of rushing water from the crown of an oak at his back, as if a spigot there....

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

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

I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an....

Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband’s lechery was compulsive and incurable,....

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and....

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

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to....

The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute,....