Quotes by Cheever, John

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptac >>

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafnes >>

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner dist >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, >>

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, unint >>

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare >>

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

Cheever, John