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 STEINBECKIdeas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
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How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him–he has known a fear beyond every other.
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Don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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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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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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