How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.
John SteinbeckI 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.
John SteinbeckI am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.
John Steinbeck