Appreciate Quote by John Cheever

“Annie Savoy: [narrating] Walt Whitman once said, "I see great things in baseball. It's our game, the American game. It will repair our losses…

— Bull Durham

“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...”

— Avijeet Das

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

— Anonymous

“When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He sees not what you lost or won, but how you played the game!”

— Anonymous

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

“...When the one great scorer comes to write against YOUR name, he writes not that you won or lost, but HOW you played the…

— Anon AKAAnonymous

“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”

— John Wilmot

“A man listening to a story is in the company of the storyteller; even a man reading one shares this companionship. The reader of…

— Walter Benjamin

“Fill in the blanks, you’d have a novel; keep it short and it’s a play by Beckett.”

— Stephen Dobyns