Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECKI 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.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.
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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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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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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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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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A man without words is a man without thought.
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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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