1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

The human is the only guilty animal.

You know what it is? San Francisco is a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.