John Cheever: Quotes about life

John Cheever was American novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
John Cheever: 72 quotes1 like

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

John Cheever

Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal (September 8, 1979).

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

John Cheever

Newsweek (October 20, 1986).

“We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.”

John Cheever

The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)