Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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Your 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.
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I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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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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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
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