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
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
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
“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
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 design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — 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
“Regarding "thou mayest": And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love.… — 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
“Mind, I congratulate you. You jumped me to sex, translated it to aesthetics, and ended with sour grapes. How dishonest can I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe one thing powerfully- that the only creative thing our species has is the individual, lonely mind... The group ungoverned by… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Coming out of sleep, I had the advantage of two worlds, the layered firmament of dream and the temporal fixtures of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing… — 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
“Hazel used his trick. "They got no starfish there?" "They got no ocean there" said Doc. "Oh!" said Hazel and he cast… — 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
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.” — 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
