Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
JOHN STEINBECK
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
More John Steinbeck Quotes
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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Time is the only critic without ambition.
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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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You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
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Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.
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Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
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It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
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If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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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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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
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