John Cheever: Likeness

John Cheever was American novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

John Cheever: 72 quotes1 like

“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”

The Sixties, 1963 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”

Christian Science Monitor (October 24, 1979).

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”

“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”

The Sixties, 1966 entry.
The Journals of John Cheever (1991)

“.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.”

John Cheever book The Wapshot Chronicle

The Wapshot Chronicle (1957)