The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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.
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People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
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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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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 STEINBECK