Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
John Steinbeck
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Steinbeck
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: February 27
Died: 1968
Died: December 20
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Salinas
California
John Ernst Steinbeck
Jr.
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Ernest Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr
Steinbeck
Kind
Craft
People
Crafts
Breaking
Glory
Writer
Religion
May
Find
More quotes by John Steinbeck
Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.
John Steinbeck
An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
John Steinbeck
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
John Steinbeck
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
John Steinbeck
Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.
John Steinbeck
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
John Steinbeck
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John Steinbeck
But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there.
John Steinbeck
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
John Steinbeck
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
John Steinbeck
Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
John Steinbeck
Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.
John Steinbeck
Yes, you should talk, he said. Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.
John Steinbeck
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
John Steinbeck
I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
John Steinbeck
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
John Steinbeck
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
John Steinbeck
