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 loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

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

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Think
  • Office
  • Run

• 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

• In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • World
  • Job
  • Worry

• It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Company
  • Compete

• Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Forget
  • Despair
  • Labor

• No matter if we're in a contentious situation or simply engaging in an everyday interaction, we should aspire to have the strength to be kind always. If each of us shared this aspiration, we'd all be better off.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Everyday

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

  

  John Cheever