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Quotes by John Steinbeck

'Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.'

'Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.'

‘Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.’

‘Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.  Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.’

'To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death.  He puts the last word down and it is done.  But it isn't really done.  The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.'

'The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.'

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