Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
More Quotes from John Cheever:
Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.John Cheever
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
John Cheever
He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.
John Cheever
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
John Cheever
Homesickness is ... absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.... You don't really long foranother country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
John Cheever
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