Susan Cheever Quotes

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained.