Drink Quotes by Susan Cheever

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

— Susan Cheever

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with…

— Susan Cheever

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

— Susan Cheever

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just…

— Susan Cheever

If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a…

— Susan Cheever

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

— Susan Cheever

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader…

— Susan Cheever

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad.…

— Susan Cheever

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

— Susan Cheever

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are…

— Susan Cheever

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Susan Cheever

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

— Susan Cheever