“‘Well, I like a lot of talk in a book, and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks. And another thing-I kind of like to figure out what the guy’s thinking by what he says. I like some description too,’ he went on. ‘I like to know what color a thing is, how it smells and maybe how it looks, and maybe how a guy feels about it–but not too much of that.'”
John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
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