If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer’s own experience.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And here's a story you can hardly believe, but it's true, and it's funny and it's beautiful. There was a family of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to figure it out. When we were children we lived in a story that we made up. But when I… — 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
