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.
JOHN STEINBECKOnly through immitation do we develop toward originality.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
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American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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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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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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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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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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There’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
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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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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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