Quote of the Day (John Cheever, on the Need to Write)

“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. For me, it’s the most intimate form of communicating about love and memory and nostalgia."—Novelist/short story writer John Cheever, quoted in Michiko Kakutani, The Poet at the Piano: Portraits of Writers, Filmmakers, Playwrights, and Other Artists at Work (1988)