And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
John SteinbeckWriting to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
John SteinbeckI am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
John SteinbeckI'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
John Steinbeck