Quotes About Cheever

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Mrs. Cheever's kitchen was calm and cool. Mr. Payton, in a chair by the window, was reading a very old newspaper. Old news is more soothing to read about, he said. You know that you have lived through it alright.

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'

Apparently just thinking about Grant Adams and his brothers was enough to conjure a miracle. Of all things, Grant was dying of cancer, and Cheever had a brain cell to think that Grant was the luckiest sonuvabitch Tyson had ever seen.

as well as 10,000 traffic fatalities a year caused by drinking.

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

early colonist columnist wrote, "If ever a nation was debauched by a man

as a "crafty and lecherous old hypocrite."45

maple. I wasn't going to get the old samurai sword out and chase him.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.