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Writing Quotes by John Cheever
- The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
- 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…
- Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
- I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.
- 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…
- To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness,…
- I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
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