Inspirational Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

There is comfort in routine.

— John Steinbeck

Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.

— John Steinbeck

Thou mayest rule over sin.

— John Steinbeck

“Ma Joad: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt…

— John Steinbeck

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

— John Steinbeck

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

— John Steinbeck

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

— John Steinbeck

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

— John Steinbeck

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

— John Steinbeck

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

— John Steinbeck

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

— John Steinbeck

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

— John Steinbeck

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

— John Steinbeck

“There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of…

— John Steinbeck

Saints can spring from any soil.

— John Steinbeck

Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

— John Steinbeck

It don't cost money to ask.

— John Steinbeck

Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you…

— John Steinbeck

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

— John Steinbeck

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

— John Steinbeck

A fallow field is a sin.

— John Steinbeck

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

— John Steinbeck

But a man needs company.

— John Steinbeck

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

— John Steinbeck

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

— John Steinbeck