All John Steinbeck Quotes
- I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. Always Good
- Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind. Mind
- The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the… Ancient
- A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights. Always Works
- Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. America
- Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep. Completely
- Thou mayest rule over sin. Funny
- The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he… Big
- Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human… Child
- It seems to me Montana is a great splash of grandeur. The scale is huge but not overpowering. The land is rich with grass and… Agenda
- No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe Awe
- Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one… Bed
- I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a… Approximating
- I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. Days
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps.… Abandon
- In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Force
- It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way.… Absorbed
- When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California… Across
- Must hunger become anger and anger fury before anything will be done? Anger
- A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. Alike
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome. All
- A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks… All
- In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating… All
- A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. Beautiful
- I believe that love cannot be bought except with love. Believe