John Cheever

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.