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 Copy Share Image
No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to… — 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
I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 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
