John Steinbeck Quotes
John Steinbeck Quotes
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
A book is like a man – clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Writer
