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Writer Quotes by John Cheever
- The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window…
- A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the…
- The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and…
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