You’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECKYou’re bound to get ideas if you go thinkin’ about stuff.
JOHN STEINBECKA man without words is a man without thought.
JOHN STEINBECKMan is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECKTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECKDon’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
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 STEINBECKMy imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECKThis I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
JOHN STEINBECKTime is the only critic without ambition.
JOHN STEINBECKI know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. Confused people can make no clear demands.
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 STEINBECKI 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.
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 STEINBECKMaybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
JOHN STEINBECK