I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; itโs an amazing form that we havenโt even begun to tapโฆweโre just getting started figuring out what the rules are.
Susan CheeverPersonal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.
Susan CheeverAll writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.
Susan CheeverThere were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.
Susan CheeverOur [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.
Susan CheeverThe birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.
Susan Cheever