My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
quote by Irwin Shaw
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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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Art is the triumph over chaos.
John Cheever in The Stories of John Cheever Knopf (1978)
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Paperback Writer
(LennonMcCartney)
Paperback writer
Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job, so I want to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer
It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer
Paperback writer
It's a thousand pages, give or take a few
I'll be writing more in a week or two
I can make it longer if you like the style
I can change it round and I want to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer
If you really like it you can have the rights
It could make a million for you overnight
If you must return it, you can send it here
But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer
Paperback writer
Paperback writer
Paperback writer, paperback writer
Paperback writer, paperback writer
Paperback writer, paperback writer
Paperback writer, paperback writer (fade out)
song performed by by Paul McCartney
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All These Things
Sometimes I don’t feel who I am.
I don’t feel like what I write
because I don’t want to be pigeonholed
for just one thing I do.
I think myself as a whole
and not just one object.
I call myself a writer,
not a poet,
not a novelist,
neither a songwriter
nor a short story writer be.
I am a writer
because all those things
emulate from within me.
10 April 2009
poem by David Harris
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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.
quote by John Cheever
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I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
quote by Eric Brown
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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
quote by Lynn Abbey
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It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.
quote by Tobias Wolff
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Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.
quote by Eric Brown
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Favorite Girl
Funny how things don’t seem to ever change
Now that I see you I’m transformed I am not the same
I know all the parts of you cause you’re my favorite girl
Because of everything you do you’re my favorite girl
Good things come and good things go
we only have today Tomorrow who knows
You’re my favorite you’re my favorite girl
I've tried so hard to move forward
But I keep on moving back
I’m stuck in some odd time warp
On an elusive track
Your a sacred pearl cause your my favorite girl
There’ no sanctuary in this world but your my favorite girl
People come and people go
we only have today Tomorrow who knows
You’re my favorite you’re my favorite girl
Its the same old story But damn if it don’t make you cry
Boy meets girl than loses her for no reason why
In my heart, nothing should matter except you’re my favorite girl
The whole universe could shatter you’d still be my favorite girl
People come and people go
We only have to day
Baby baby you stole the show
Baby baby you stole the show
Tomorrow who knows
You’re my favorite you’re my favorite girl
poem by Harlan Lovestone
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That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
quote by John Cheever
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
quote by John Cheever
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It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
quote by John Cheever
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I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
quote by John Cheever
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Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
quote by John Cheever
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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
quote by John Cheever
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Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
quote by John Cheever
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
quote by John Cheever
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
quote by John Cheever
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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.
quote by John Cheever
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