"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever" — Irwin Shaw
"My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever"
More Cheever Quotes
- The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American… — Anna Quindlen
- A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan,… — 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… — Mona Simpson
- I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could… — Harry Mathews