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Quotes from James Charlton's The Writer’s Quotation Book — John Cheever

1912–1982 United States

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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

James Charlton's The Writer’s Quotation Book (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Cheever (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.