I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy. John Steinbeck More Quotes by John Steinbeck More Quotes From John Steinbeck I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference. John Steinbeck differences mind want And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them. John Steinbeck gathering listening people This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. John Steinbeck freedom fighting eden Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. John Steinbeck track writing ideas Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt. John Steinbeck hurt I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. John Steinbeck rags rip nerves The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing. John Steinbeck confused book reality And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. John Steinbeck memories people years What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately. John Steinbeck gauges register mass Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans John Steinbeck ocean sea men A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot. John Steinbeck horse feet men I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while. John Steinbeck land should-have rain The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. John Steinbeck oneness unity order And Tom brought him chicken soup until he wanted to kill him. The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either. John Steinbeck hurt food believe [He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest. John Steinbeck honest girl world There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln. John Steinbeck squares hair mean In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. John Steinbeck stronger inspiration writing I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them. John Steinbeck circles dog night When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else. John Steinbeck men mean thinking The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you. John Steinbeck can-do helping world
