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NOVELISTS > novelist > John Steinbeck
The writer must...
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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Source: In diary used to warm up for his daily stint of writing; in NY Times, 2 Jun 1969.
-- John Steinbeck, (Feb 27 1902-1968), US novelist; He aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farm workers in The Grapes of Wrath, 1939; won Nobel Prize, 1962.