1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

The first few years after Samuel came to Salinas Valley there was a vague distrust of him. And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store. Little boys don't want their fathers to be different from other men. Will might have picked up his conservatism right then.

Your sons have no names.”Adam replied, “Their mother left them motherless.”“And you have left them fatherless. Can’t you feel the cold at night of a lone child? What warm is there, what bird song, what possible morning can be good? Don’t you remember, Adam, how it was, even a little?”“I didn’t do it,” Adam said.“Have you undone it? Your boys have no names.

Când te pregătești mult timp pentru o călătorie cred că nutrești gândul intim că nu se va realiza.

M-am născut pierdut li nu-mi place să fiu găsit.

A dog...is a bond between strangers.

It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There’s no godliness there.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material…..