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
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is… — 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
The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. — 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
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. — 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
