From the Nobel Prize-winning author's diary Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, Maria Popova excerpts Steinbeck's musings about the relationship between a writer and his pen: "Here is a strange thing — almost like a secret. You start out putting words down and there are three things — you, the pen, and the page. Then gradually the three things merge until they are all one and you feel about the page as you do about your arm."
April 19, 2015
