1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Saints can spring from any soil.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.