John Steinbeck Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Reality, Romance

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.77, Penguin

• He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

  John Steinbeck

  Reality, Men, Discovery

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.46, Penguin

• A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

  John Steinbeck

  Real, Made, Plans

  John Steinbeck (1994). “The Pearl”, p.40, Penguin

• The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Reality, Design

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

• The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.

  John Steinbeck

  Confused, Book, Reality

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.29, Penguin

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