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Steinbeck on writing:

"What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft ... a kind of breaking through to glory."

1/5

"With the rhythms and symbols of poetry one can get into a reader - open him up and while he is open introduce things on an intellectual level which he would not or could not receive unless he were opened up." 2/5

On 'The Grapes of Wrath': "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice. It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted - slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges."3/5

June 18th, 1938. A little more than 3 weeks after starting 'The Grapes of Wrath': "If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. I'll just have to work from ... 4/5

a background of those. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain. ... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no one else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time." 5/5