All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
John Cheever
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More quotes by John Cheever
- I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
- For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
- When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
- Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.