No one wants advice – only corroboration.
JOHN STEINBECKIf a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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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’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
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With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do, Try to be better than yourself.
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
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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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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
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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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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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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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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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