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One Quotes by John Steinbeck
- 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…
- My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
- The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech…
- If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to…
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two…
- If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a…
- One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.
- A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
- The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he…
- No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one…
- I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps.…
- In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating…
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of…
- The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
- One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.
- A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they…
- A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.
- There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
- One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
- But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.
- Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will…
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