John Cheever Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Art, Lying

• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

• I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Sleep, Mind

  "Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Intellectuals". Book by David Olsen, Michelle Bevilacqua (p. 67), October 15, 2011.

• I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Faces, Fame

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