What did John Cheever mean by: There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. John Cheever Writer Copy
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Children, Men, Women, 0 John Cheever Writer
+ Without a reader, I cannot write. It’s like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Connection, Creativity, Interdependence, 0 John Cheever Writer
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Challenge, Perception, Writing, 0 John Cheever Writer
Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Acceptance, Faith, Love, 0 John Cheever Writer
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Belonging, Comfort, Isolation, 0 John Cheever Writer
You can’t expect to communicate with anyone if you’re a bore. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Communication, Engagement, Personality, 0 John Cheever Writer
+ The short story is the literature of the nomad. Author, August 26, 2023January 2, 2025, John Cheever, Adaptation, Exploration, Freedom, 0 John Cheever Writer
I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Cheever, Creativity, Expression, Liberation, 0 John Cheever Writer
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. Lewis Thomas Physician · USA
How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle’s is its sight. Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
