John Steinbeck Quotes
- The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
- Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
- A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
- He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
- We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity…
- All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.
- A fallow field is a sin.
- A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good…
- A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where…
- I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
- I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story…
- To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't…
- They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of…
- I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite…
- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have…