John Steinbeck Quotes
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 punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
... you can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it.