1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..

Грешные мысли одолели... Грешные, но, на мой взгляд, здравые («Гроздья гнева»)

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.

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.

What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.

The process of writing a book is the process of outgrowing it.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.