"Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away."
"They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of meaning which stretches not only forward in the book but stems from before in the book."
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Source: John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.115, Penguin
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