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“ ”And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting- only the deeply personal and familiar.
About John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968) was an American writer. A recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, his works include the novella Of Mice and Men (1937) and the novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Great Depression.
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Additional quotes by John Steinbeck
And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes.
Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.