John Cheever Quotes

John Cheever — American Writer born on May 27, 1912, died on June 18, 1982

John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories, he also wrote four novels, comprising The Wapshot Chronicle,The Wapshot Scandal, Bullet Park, Falconer and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems... (wikipedia)

Art is the triumph over chaos.

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

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

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

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