The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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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 great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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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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If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.
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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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