John Steinbeck Quotes

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

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.

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.