Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKMaybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
JOHN STEINBECKIf you want to destroy a nation, give it too much – make it greedy, miserable and sick.
JOHN STEINBECKNearly everyone has his box of secret pain.
JOHN STEINBECKTeaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
JOHN STEINBECKIt is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
JOHN STEINBECKYou know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
JOHN STEINBECKAll great and precious things are lonely.
JOHN STEINBECKAn unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.
JOHN STEINBECKIn utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
JOHN STEINBECKWrite freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
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 STEINBECKI am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
JOHN STEINBECKAmerican married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
JOHN STEINBECKWhen two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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 STEINBECKThe free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
JOHN STEINBECK