Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You're buying years of work, toil in the sun you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
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
Talk
Work
Years
Toil
Buying
Sorrow
Sun
More quotes by John Steinbeck
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant
John Steinbeck
We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
John Steinbeck
An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.
John Steinbeck
I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
John Steinbeck
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
John Steinbeck
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction.
John Steinbeck
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
John Steinbeck
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.
John Steinbeck
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
John Steinbeck
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
John Steinbeck
Thou mayest rule over sin.
John Steinbeck
It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.
John Steinbeck
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
John Steinbeck
We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
John Steinbeck
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
John Steinbeck
A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
John Steinbeck
[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
John Steinbeck
When the virus of restlessness begins to take possession of a wayward man, and the road away from Here seems broad and straight and sweet, the victim must first find himself a good and sufficient reason for going.
John Steinbeck
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.
John Steinbeck
