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A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised (John Steinbeck Quotes)
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man: (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A creative person has to be alive. He can’t borrow from things he’s done in the past. He can’t let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can’t be warped to fit his style (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind (John Steinbeck Quotes)
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love (John Steinbeck Quotes)
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works (John Steinbeck Quotes)
It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don’t know and don’t hate (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid (John Steinbeck Quotes)
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost (John Steinbeck Quotes)
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man (John Steinbeck Quotes)
For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have (John Steinbeck Quotes)
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar (John Steinbeck Quotes)
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically (John Steinbeck Quotes)
Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them (John Steinbeck Quotes)
She wasn’t happy, but then she wasn’t unhappy. She wasn’t anything. But I don’t believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream (John Steinbeck Quotes)