I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.
JOHN STEINBECKYour audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
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And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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