John Steinbeck Quotes

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.