Quote by John Steinbeck
"The most important thing a writer has is the ability to listen."
More from John Steinbeck
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
"The comfortable people want only waking and sleeping, eating and excreting, working and reproducing."