Famous Quotes

"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."

John Cheever on Alone

More quotes about Alone

• "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

  Albert Einstein on Alone

• "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

  Helen Keller on Alone

• "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

  Marilyn Monroe on Alone

• "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

  George Washington on Alone

• "I restore myself when I'm alone."

  Marilyn Monroe on Alone

More quotes by John Cheever

• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

• "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

• "When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."

• "Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."

• "Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."