All John Steinbeck Quotes
- Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined… Audience
- My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day. Day
- People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. Along
- The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech… Acid
- Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know… Afraid
- There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the… All
- In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there,… Business
- I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference. Chin
- Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful… Age
- Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional. Another Form
- When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet,… Begins
- The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. Anybody
- If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to… Able
- A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete. Appreciated
- If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick. Destroy
- Only mediocrity escapes criticism. Criticism
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Abandon
- I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against… Apathy
- Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back. Best
- People do not want advice - they want corroboration. Advice