Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics. Author: John Cheever Copy Quote More from John Cheever “I was here on earth because I chose to be.” “I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improveme…” “She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might …” “I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alon…”