Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics. Autore: John Cheever Copy Quote More from John Cheever “Ben and I walked by the Forum, which, with the green grass still growing among …” “The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover …” “I have spent considerable of my leisure time in this past year in the improveme…” “Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slo…”