Quote by John Cheever
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

Other quotes by John Cheever

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbeys gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. – John Cheever

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Loneliness
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. – John Cheever

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Home
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Other Quotes from
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The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

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Writing

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

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Writing

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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Writing

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. – Russell Lynes

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Writing

Random Quotes

“Would you like an adventure now…. or would you like to have your tea first?” Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude…. – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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Tea

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it. – James Russell Lowell

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Truth

Ive always said that one night, Im going to find myself in some field somewhere, Im standing on grass, and its raining, and Im with the person I love, and I know Im at the very point Ive been dreaming of getting to. – Drew Barrymore

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Dreams

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent Basement Tapes will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilsons reasons for the destruction of the tapes for Smile. – Jon Landau

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smile