John Steinbeck Quotes About Shyness

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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 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 (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin
  • 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 (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.12, Penguin
  • But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

    John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”
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