Miscellaneous quotation

"And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
--John Steinbeck, Steinbeck: A Life of Letters

Miscellaneous quotation

"...a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. "
--John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent