Quotes by : John Cheever

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

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

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

Wisdom we know 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.

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

Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-32....

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then....

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

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise....