Quote: The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: Time is the only critic without ambition. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: No one wants advice, only corroboration. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. [John Steinbeck]
Quote: Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. [John Steinbeck]