John Steinbeck quote about imagination from Tortilla Flat - It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.
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“ It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. ”
 John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat (1935). copy citation

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Author John Steinbeck
Source Tortilla Flat
Topic imagination story
Date 1935
Language English
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John Steinbeck quote about imagination from Tortilla Flat - It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.
John Steinbeck quote about imagination from Tortilla Flat - It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.