John Steinbeck Quotes About Writing

• I guess there are never enough books.

  John Steinbeck

  Libro, Escritura, Suficiente

  John Steinbeck (2001). “The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights”, p.304, Penguin UK

• Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Ideas, Abandon

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, Penguin

• La profesión de escritor de libros hace que las carreras de caballos parezcan un negocio sólido y estable.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Book, Writing

  "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights". Book by John Steinbeck, 1976.

• Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Hardest

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.107, Penguin

• Las ideas son como los conejos. Consigues un par y aprendes a manejarlos, y muy pronto tienes una docena.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Paper, Excuse

• I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

  John Steinbeck

  Escritura, cuentos, manualidades

• To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspiring, Writing, Sadness

  "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters".

• The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

  John Steinbeck

  Poderoso, Creer, Escribir

  The New York Times, June 02, 1969.

• Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

  John Steinbeck

  Kings, Hero, Writing

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.21, Penguin

• Si una escena o una sección te molesta y sigues pensando que la quieres, pásala por alto y sigue adelante. Cuando hayas terminado el conjunto, puedes volver a ella y descubrir que la razón por la que te dio problemas es porque no pertenecía a ese lugar.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Thinking, Goes On

• The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

  John Steinbeck

  Stupid, Writing, Discipline

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.729, Penguin UK

• Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Paper, Whole

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, Penguin

• The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

  John Steinbeck

  Arte, escritura, artesanía

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

• Sueña siempre y dispara más alto de lo que sabes que puedes hacer... Intenta ser mejor que tú mismo.

  John Steinbeck

  Sueño, Escritura, Excelencia

• A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Sight, Mind

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

• Sufro como siempre del miedo a escribir la primera línea. Es asombroso los terrores, las magias, las plegarias, la timidez estremecedora que le asaltan a uno. Es como si las palabras no sólo fueran indelebles, sino que se extendieran como el tinte en el agua y colorearan todo a su alrededor. Escribir es un asunto extraño y místico.

  John Steinbeck

  Oración, escritura, color

  John Steinbeck (1990). "Diario de una novela: The East of Eden Letters", p.12, Penguin

• Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Ideas, Track

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.611, 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

  Mentir, Escribir, Mal

• When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

  John Steinbeck

  Fall, Writing, Sick

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.17, Penguin

• La poesía es la matemática de la escritura y está estrechamente relacionada con la música.

  John Steinbeck

  Escritura, Poesía, Matemáticas

• Escribir para mí es una función profundamente personal, incluso secreta, y cuando el producto lo suelto se desliga de mí y no tengo la sensación de que sea mío. En consecuencia, las críticas no significan nada para mí. Como cuestión disciplinaria, ya es demasiado tarde.

  John Steinbeck

  Escritura, Media, Corte

  "John Steinbeck, El arte de la ficción nº 45". Entrevista con Nathaniel Benchley, www.theparisreview.org. Otoño de 1969.

• Escribo esto desde lo que los americanos llamamos Yurrp. En Yurrp los escritores son tomados tan en serio como las piernas de Lana Turner en América - una situación ridícula.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Taken, Home

• I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Wish, Certain

• A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Character, Past

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