John Cheever - The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in ...

John Cheever Zitate

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

John Cheever

Bewertung: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5,0 Sterne

Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Aufgabe eines amerikanischen Schriftstellers besteht nicht darin, die Bedenken einer beim Ehebruch ergriffenen Frau zu beschreiben, als sie aus dem Fenster auf den Regen schaut, sondern vierhundert Menschen unter den Lichtern, die nach einem üblen Ball greifen. Das ist Zeremonie.

← Vorheriges Zitat

Nächstes Zitat →

Ähnliche Autoren

Dale Carnegie Dr. Seuss Elbert Hubbard H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury Robert A. Heinlein William Arthur Ward

Ähnliche Zitate

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

bell hooks

I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

Eddie Guerrero

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

LL Cool J

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

Tyler Perry

'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.

Crystal Bowersox

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

Gary Oldman

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

John W. Snow

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

Bryson Tiller

I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.

Al Sharpton