John Steinbeck Quotes


You give me much good counsel. I am tired of it. - John Steinbeck


Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. - John Steinbeck


What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. - John Steinbeck


We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. - John Steinbeck


Time is the only critic without ambition. - John Steinbeck


These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. - John Steinbeck


There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln. - John Steinbeck


The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. - John Steinbeck


The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. - John Steinbeck


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