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.
JOHN STEINBECKI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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