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Book Quotes by John Steinbeck
- 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…
- 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…
- Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
- The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
- A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
- A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when…
- 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…
- I have taken as much as six years to prepare a book for writing. There is such a delirium of effort in the production of…
- The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come…
- The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
- Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.…
- I guess there are never enough books.
- I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
- He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't…
- A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page…
- ...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But…
- Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets…
- When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and…
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