John Cheever: 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 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.

-- John Cheever


		Name: John Cheever Type: Writer Nationality: American Birth: May 27, 1912 Death: June 18, 1982

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