Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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No one wants advice – only corroboration.
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Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
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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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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
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I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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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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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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