Cheever on writing as sport

Kit StolzFebruary 26, 2011local heroes, thinking out loudCheever, literature, sport

From an interview with his daughter in Newsweek late in his wondrous career:

Writing is not at all a competitive sport. I don't think of myself as being less that Saul Bellow or more than Herbert Gold. The essence of literature is always the singularity of the writer.

h/t: Al Filreis

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