John Steinbeck Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.”

“So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.”

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

“Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”

“No one wants advice - only corroboration.”

“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”

“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”