Unless a writer's capable of solitude, he should leave books alone and go into the theater.
John SteinbeckA stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
John SteinbeckTags: beautiful-writing
And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book.
John SteinbeckLet’s get it over and the door closed shut on it! Let’s close it like a book and go on reading! New chapter, new life.
John SteinbeckI know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
John SteinbeckGive me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.
John SteinbeckSomeone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.
John SteinbeckTags: america americana 20th-century industrialization
Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.
John SteinbeckThe sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.
John SteinbeckI know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.
John SteinbeckTags: resistance
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