Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.
John SteinbeckThree hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
John SteinbeckWhat some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
John SteinbeckThe words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.
John Steinbeck