Cheever Quotes
- The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
- My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever — Irwin Shaw
- A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the… — Dylan Moran
- I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever
- Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near… — Mona Simpson
- I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized… — Harry Mathews