The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECKThe final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
JOHN STEINBECKNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
JOHN STEINBECKMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
JOHN STEINBECKAnd finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
JOHN STEINBECKThere’s nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKSomewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECKYour audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
JOHN STEINBECKA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECKThe craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.
JOHN STEINBECKAh, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECKIf a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.
JOHN STEINBECK