All John Steinbeck Quotes
- You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff Bound
- As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much… Happens
- It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. Absurd
- Don't make everyone know about your sadness. Everyone
- He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man… Constancy
- So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them… Attic
- He never fell, never slipped back, never flew. Back Never
- I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found. Born
- When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people. Changed
- These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might… Burning
- When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… Aching
- The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we. Cuts
- I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. Eat
- And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory… All
- Anything that just costs money is cheap. Cheap
- An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a… Back Truth
- I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked… All
- Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… Banquet
- I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in… Ambition
- What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory. Breaking
- Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. Children
- Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and… Exaltation
- A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. Belief
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… All
- How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… Administration