John Steinbeck

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

John Steinbeck

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments.

John Steinbeck

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

John Steinbeck

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

John Steinbeck

I have written a great many stories and I still don’t know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

John Steinbeck

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

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

John Steinbeck

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

John Steinbeck

I think bullfights are for men who aren’t very brave and wish they were.

John Steinbeck

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

John Steinbeck