Quotes By John Steinbeck

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Men 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.