The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
John Cheever: 36 citations0 J'aime
John Cheever: Citations en anglais
“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
Christian Science Monitor (October 24, 1979).
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”
Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal (September 8, 1979).
Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
“I was here on earth because I chose to be.”
John Cheever livre The Stories of John Cheever
Source: The Stories of John Cheever
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.”
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
Accepting National Medal for Literature (April 27, 1982).
Quoted in James Charlton's The Writer’s Quotation Book (1980).
The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
John Cheever livre The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1952 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
Accepting National Book Award, The Writer (September 1958).
On the assassination of John F. Kennedy
The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1955 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
Entry in his journal before his last public appearance, the ceremony at which he received the National Medal for Literature, quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1955 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
John Cheever livre The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
“Art is the triumph over chaos.”
The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978).
“Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.”
John Cheever livre The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
Letter to Philip Roth (May 10, 1982); The Letters of John Cheever (1989).
The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
The Late Forties and the Fifties, 1956 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)
John Cheever livre The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)
Quoted by Susan Cheever, Home before Dark Houghton Mifflin (1984).
“Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”
“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).
