“Not an early start today but it doesn’t matter at all because the unity feeling is back. That is the fine thing. That makes it easy and fun to work.” – John Steinbeck. The unity feeling – you know what Steinbeck means, don’t you? Have you felt it? The writer Zadie Smith describes a state of magical […]
John Steinbeck
Writing and the Imposter Syndrome
“I’m not a writer. I’ve been fooling myself and other people. I wish I were.” If you have ever had these thoughts, you’re in good company. These words appear in the journals of John Steinbeck. Yes, that Steinbeck – the one who won a Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote this journal entry in late summer of 1938, while he […]
