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Write Quotes by John Steinbeck
- I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite…
- 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…
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
- 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.…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
- I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that…
- I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words…
- Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never…
- I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
- Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and…
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