John Steinbeck Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, California

  John Steinbeck (2002). “Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

• The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Dark, Light

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Excellence

• People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, People, Convince

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.224, Penguin

• She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Memories, Believe

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.29, Penguin

• An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Ocean, Sleep

• Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Real, Gone

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.208, Penguin

• Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Preparation

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.67, Penguin

• How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Light, Quality

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.8, Penguin

• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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