Way Quotes by John Steinbeck

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

— 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

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only…

— John Steinbeck

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

— John Steinbeck

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

— John Steinbeck

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

— John Steinbeck

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

— John Steinbeck

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

— John Steinbeck

The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside…

— John Steinbeck

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the…

— John Steinbeck

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they…

— John Steinbeck

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take…

— John Steinbeck

It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I…

— John Steinbeck

“I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's…

— John Steinbeck

“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we…

— John Steinbeck

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften…

— John Steinbeck

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world.…

— John Steinbeck

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls…

— John Steinbeck

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire…

— John Steinbeck

Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be…

— John Steinbeck

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they…

— John Steinbeck

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in…

— John Steinbeck

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and…

— John Steinbeck

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see…

— John Steinbeck

The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant…

— John Steinbeck

My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I…

— John Steinbeck

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

— John Steinbeck

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in…

— John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

— John Steinbeck

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you…

— John Steinbeck

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that…

— John Steinbeck

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to…

— John Steinbeck

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell…

— John Steinbeck

Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small…

— John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in…

— John Steinbeck