John Steinbeck Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of a book; it's like childbirth. And, like childbirth, one forgets the pains immediately so that when you come to write another one you dare to take it up again. Some precious anesthesia sees you through.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Book, Taken

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Confusion, Effort

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.65, Penguin

• Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, People, Effort

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.10, Penguin

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