Dystopian Author Quotes

John Steinbeck The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can’t take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to […]

John Steinbeck A creative person has to be alive. He can’t borrow from things he’s done in the past. He can’t let his method choose his […]

John Steinbeck Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

John Steinbeck Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

John Steinbeck In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.

John Steinbeck Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it […]

John Steinbeck If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to […]

John Steinbeck Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an […]

John Steinbeck I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.