Quotes by : John Steinbeck

And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all....

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They....

I've always been amused by the contention that brain work is harder than manual labor. I've never known....

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce....

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because....

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

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

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

The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so....