It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKThe craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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To be alive at all is to have scars.
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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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If 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.
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I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
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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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And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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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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The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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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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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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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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