What did John Steinbeck mean by: Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play. - John Steinbeck Writer · USA Copy
+ Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Steinbeck, Mathematics, Poetry, Writing, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Steinbeck, Desert, Sun, Water, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ A man without words is a man without thought. Feraz Zeid, November 1, 2023December 27, 2023, John Steinbeck, Contradicting, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Steinbeck, Alive, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen. Feraz Zeid, March 31, 2023January 10, 2024, John Steinbeck, Perception, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Death was a friend, and sleep was Death’s brother. Feraz Zeid, August 10, 2023December 12, 2023, John Steinbeck, Brother, Death And Dying, Sleep, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Steinbeck, Chaos, Monsters, Variation, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
+ Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn’t do anything about it. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Steinbeck, Sparrows, 0 - John Steinbeck Writer · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA