John steinbeck

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.