People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
More Quotes from John Cheever:
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.John Cheever
He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosalie knew that he was still outside the gates.
John Cheever
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
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
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever
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