John Steinbeck quotes

John Steinbeck was an American author famous for his vivid portrayals of working-class life and social injustice. His novels, such as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Of Mice and Men," had a profound impact on American literature and culture. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and remains an influential figure in the literary world. Here are 439 of his quotes:

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. (John Steinbeck)
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. View quote
John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. View quote
John Steinbeck
People do not want advice - they want corroboration. View quote
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. View quote
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There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. View quote
John Steinbeck
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. View quote
John Steinbeck
To be alive at all is to have scars. View quote
John Steinbeck
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. View quote
John Steinbeck
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. View quote
John Steinbeck
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. (John Steinbeck)
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. View quote
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. View quote
John Steinbeck
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. View quote
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You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. View quote
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. View quote
John Steinbeck
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. View quote
John Steinbeck
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 the grass. View quote
John Steinbeck
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. View quote
John Steinbeck
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. View quote
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. (John Steinbeck)
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. View quote
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Time is the only critic without ambition. View quote
John Steinbeck
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 the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. View quote
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. View quote
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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Occupation: American Author
Born: February 27, 1902
Died: December 20, 1968
Quotes count: 439
Wikipedia: John Steinbeck

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