Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
John CheeverGood writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
John CheeverThe deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John CheeverI've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
John CheeverFalsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.
John CheeverAlice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.
John Cheever