“Why did his mind pick its way as delicately as a cat through cactus?” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia. It… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He raged at his farm, forced it, added to it, drilled and trimmed, and his boundaries extended. He took no rest, no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers]… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Because he loved true things, he tried to explain. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.” — john steinbeck Copy Share Image
And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
