Quotes by : John Steinbeck

A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling.....

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold....

She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that....

Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but simply....

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee....

I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns....

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field....

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.