The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
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The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
John Cheever in The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
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Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
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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.
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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 at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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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 possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
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