John Steinbeck Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• 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

• The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, People, Forever

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.96, Hamilton Books

• 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

• I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Thinking, Half

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