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

• My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Good
  • Home
  • Fashion

• Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Different
  • American
  • Together

• We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.

  

  Eric Adams Manowar
  • Moving
  • Wake Up
  • Driveway

• The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Ingenuity

• I got married way too young.

  

  Carmen Cusack

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

  

  John Cheever