A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man. John Steinbeck View this quote
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn’t mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late. John Steinbeck
You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. John Steinbeck
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. John Steinbeck
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person – a real person you know, or an imagined person – and write to that one. John Steinbeck
A book is like a man – clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. John Steinbeck
A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated, but when books are burned the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive. John Steinbeck
A creative person has to be alive. He can’t borrow from things he’s done in the past. He can’t let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can’t be warped to fit his style. John Steinbeck
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory. John Steinbeck
A funeral isn’t for the dead. You’ll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won’t even be there. John Steinbeck
American writer
February 27th, 1902 - December 20th, 1968
