Books Quote by John Cheever

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.…

— John Cheever

The novel remains a very special form for me.

— Howard Gordon

“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle…

— John Cheever

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

I'm giving you a longing look ... everyday I write the book.

— Anonymous

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

— Elif Batuman

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel...

— Ernest Hemingway

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether…

— Jose Saramago

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger than what…

— Gary Schmidt

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See