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a tight hard little woman humorless as a chicken.
~ John Steinbeck
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
~ John Steinbeck
Sometimes I think you realists are the most sentimental people in the world.
~ John Steinbeck
When the fair gold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers pulling a frog mouth at her.
~ John Steinbeck
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't want advice." "Nobody does. It's a giver's present.
~ John Steinbeck
Help him, Adam--help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That's all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him!
~ John Steinbeck
You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots?
~ John Steinbeck
Even Juan laughed then. Everyone laughed. And suddenly the bus was not full of strangers. Some chemical association was formed. Norma laughed hysterically. All the tension of the morning came out in her laughter.
~ John Steinbeck
Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.
~ John Steinbeck
The winter seemed reluctant to let go its bite. It hung on cold and wet and windy long after its time. And people repeated, It's those damned big guns they're shooting off in France-- spoiling the weather in the whole world.
~ John Steinbeck
Smiled with amusement at the myths of these country boys.
~ John Steinbeck
That is all I can think of. If there was more to be answered it is in the stomachs of those khaki-colored devils in the garden. They are eating the fence now. The appetite of a puppy ranks with Grand Canyon for pure stupendousness.
~ John Steinbeck
Why, you mouse—you nasty cur. With goodness all around you—don't you dare suggest a thing like that! Why is your sorrow more refined than my sorrow?
~ John Steinbeck
Guarantee? We guaranteed it to be an automobile.
~ John Steinbeck
I'll want to hear," Samuel said. "I eat stories like grapes.
~ John Steinbeck
Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent? And isn't discontent the lever of change?
~ John Steinbeck
In a little while Danny assaulted her virtue with true gallantry and vigor.
~ John Steinbeck
Her son is poisonous, Everything he touches. With all her maternal effort she's brought destruction into the world.
~ John Updike
full of the belief that a conspiracy of women upholds the world.
~ John Updike
I don't recall inclement weather on a fair day.
~ John Updike
The good ones develop give. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
~ John Updike
I've read a tiger's not dangerous, They say the tiger won't attack But one thing's not clear to me. Has he read this, too? Does he know?
~ John Vaillant
she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy.  Yet
~ Unknown