Quotes of Steve Almond - somelinesforyou

“ But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are. ”

- Steve Almond

“ To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that, which strikes me as both beautiful and pathetic. ”

- Steve Almond

“ I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. ”

- Steve Almond

“ The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that, which strikes me as both beautiful and pathetic. ”

- Steve Almond

“ The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that, which strikes me as both beautiful and pathetic. ”

- Steve Almond

“ I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. ”

- Steve Almond

“ If I had been the kind of kid who kept a diary, the entries from the years 12 to say, 16, would have to read: Got high, ate candy. ”

- Steve Almond

“ At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. This was revolutionary. Here were entire stalls of candy, naked as the day they were born, piled up two feet high and God knows how deep… ”

- Steve Almond

“ I'm a great lover of visual art and I will happily discuss the color and texture of Van Gogh's Starry Night.... But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts, snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS, the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipop sticks all akimbo, the foil ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase. ”

- Steve Almond

“ I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded with the Sometimes you feel like a nut Almond Joy/Mounds jingle. ”

- Steve Almond

“ At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. This was revolutionary. Here were entire stalls of candy, naked as the day they were born, piled up two feet high and God knows how deep… ”

- Steve Almond

“ It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that, which strikes me as both beautiful and pathetic. ”

- Steve Almond

“ I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. ”

- Steve Almond

“ If I had been the kind of kid who kept a diary, the entries from the years 12 to say, 16, would have to read: Got high, ate candy. ”

- Steve Almond

“ I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. This was revolutionary. Here were entire stalls of candy, naked as the day they were born, piled up two feet high and God knows how deep… ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweetened cuticle. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond

“ Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. ”

- Steve Almond
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