John Steinbeck

Quotes

• “Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or...”
• “Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get ...”
• “If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about ev...”
• “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
• “Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”
• “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”