black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

John Steinbeck

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
JOHN STEINBECK

Darkness Grief Light Loss
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
JOHN STEINBECK

Fight God Philosophy Prayer
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECK

Pain Secret
Your 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 STEINBECK

Help Reading Reality Writing
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
JOHN STEINBECK

Animal Change Herself Money Sickness
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.
JOHN STEINBECK

Difficult Experience Life Problem
To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECK

Alive Scars
My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
JOHN STEINBECK

Funny Hell Imagination Travel
It’s almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.
JOHN STEINBECK

Impossible Reading
If 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

Last Listening Myself Rule Story
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
JOHN STEINBECK

Change Deep People Philosophy
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK

Expectation Greatness Himself Life Motivational
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECK

See Truth Writing
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
JOHN STEINBECK

Paper Whole Writing
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECK

Life Marriage Sex
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECK

Literature Lonely Soul

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Steinbeck Quotes