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43 quotes by John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath...
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the... →

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of... →

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be... →

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in... →

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

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