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 recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
John SteinbeckGive me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
John SteinbeckLiterature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
John SteinbeckThe ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.
John Steinbeck