Famous quotes containing the words cheever and/or wrote:
“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)