John Steinbeck Quotes about Magic

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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.

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

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

John Steinbeck

Writing, Magic, Stories