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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can...
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and...
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's...
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the...
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss you can't do it alone.
He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he...
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the...
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his...
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly...
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is...
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
Source: 1955...
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Source: The Stories of John Cheever, 1978.
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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...
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an...