1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man.""And memory.""Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us.

I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

There’s a passage in John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” that does a pretty good job describing California’s rainfall patterns:The water came in a 30-year cycle. There would be five to six wet and wonderful years when there might be 19 to 25 inches of rain, and the land would shout with grass. Then would come six or seven pretty good years of 12 to 16 inches of rain. And then the dry years would come ...

And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.

In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.