John Cheever Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

  John Cheever

  Dog, Children, Men

• Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

  John Cheever

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  John Cheever (2016). “The Jewels of the Cabots”, p.13, Vintage

• The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

  John Cheever

  Children, Philosophy, Book

• There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

  John Cheever

  Kings, Children, Mean

  John Cheever (1973). “The Wapshot Chronicle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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