I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them. — 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
... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Mack and the boys, too, spinning in their orbits. They are the Virtues, the Graces, the Beauties of the hurried mangled craziness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But you said you did not love our father. How can you have faith in him if you didn’t love him?” “Maybe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Rose of Sharon Chapter 16 Me an’ Connie don’t want to live in the country no more. We got it all planned… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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