About John Cheever:
John William Cheever is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982).
Everytime I hold you is the last time I hold you, I've known that since the very first time.
John CheeverThe need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John CheeverHomesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
John CheeverWisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever