John Cheever

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

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the…

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose…

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

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and…

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss – you can’t do it…

All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate…

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

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

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the…