John Cheever Quotes

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

John Cheever

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• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Way
  • Crime

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Daily

• I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• You can stroke people with words.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Words
  • You

• So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Dating

• I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Play
  • Wind
  • Yes

• I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Coming

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Movie
  • Course
  • Constant

• To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Success
  • Flame

• Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Corruption

• Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Rock
  • Like
  • Kiss

• I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Run
  • Office

• I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Family
  • American
  • Veterans

• Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature

• The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • World
  • Hate

• We, the Indians, as Guru of the Nations: yes, I believe in that. We can be-or once more become- the hope of mankind. But that requires efforts and courage to be ourselves culturally. Unfortunately, we live in an age of political dwarfs, political managers without vision or courage. But their time is running out.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

  

  Jason McCoy
  • Live

• I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.

  

  Bill Laswell
  • Time
  • Long

• I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.

  

  Cosima Spender
  • Parents
  • Never
  • English

• Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

  

  John Cheever