5 Quotes & Sayings By Sol Stein

Sol Stein is the founder of the Stein family of businesses, which includes the largest specialty home furnishings store in the world, Stein Mart. He began his career in the appliance business at age 16, and by age 20 owned four retail appliance stores. With his partner, Sidney Weintraub, he purchased an appliance distribution company in 1951, which grew to become Stein Supply Co., one of America's largest home furnishings companies. Following the death of his wife Betty in 2009, Sol passed away in 2010.

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Say it new or say it straight. Sol Stein
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I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose. Sol Stein
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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories Sol Stein
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It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing Sol Stein