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.


The Sixties, 1963 entry. - The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

John Cheever Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...