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Down Quotes by John Steinbeck
- To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't…
- 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…
- We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
- Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
- One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.
- He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only…
- Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.
- 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…
- I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words…
- As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper…
- A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and…
- The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over…
- You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds…
- She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant…
- A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
- I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of…
- The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
- Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and…
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