John Steinbeck Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assail one. It is as though the words were not only indelible but that they spread out like dye in water and color everything around them. A strange and mystic business, writing.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Writing, Color

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin

• If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it.

  John Steinbeck

  Lying, Writing, Mean

• Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, People, Magic

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.223, Penguin

• I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Magic, Suffering

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin

• If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Magic, Stories

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