To be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECKTo be alive at all is to have scars.
JOHN STEINBECKIn utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECKThe craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
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 STEINBECKYou can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
JOHN STEINBECKA man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
JOHN STEINBECKI was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
JOHN STEINBECKIt’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
JOHN STEINBECKA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
JOHN STEINBECKMen 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.
JOHN STEINBECKNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECKAll war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
JOHN STEINBECKBooks are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don’t talk back.
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 STEINBECKIt is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECK