Susan Cheever Quotes
- There is no such thing as expecting too much.
- Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the…
- Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
- Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
- Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
- 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 getting…
- You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
- Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
- Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.
- When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.
- There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
- A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
- Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.