All John Steinbeck Quotes
- American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse. American
- ... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do. Expect
- (About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it. From
- There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. Backward
- In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste. Good
- New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world. Capital
- The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think… Any
- A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In… Age
- Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain ... Box
- Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. Closely
- One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything. Much
- But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer. Answer
- There is comfort in routine. Comfort
- I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete… Celibacy
- Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will… Accident
- Saints can spring from any soil. Any
- I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness. Dislike
- ... every little boy thinks he invented sin. Boy
- (Suicide) takes some doing, with maybe pain and maybe hell. Hell
- Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls… Asked
- The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with. Course
- A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects… Alive
- Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San… Attic
- The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. Art
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never… Americans