John Steinbeck Quotes

John Steinbeck was an American author who lived from 1902 to 1968. He wrote 27 books, including “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939), which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1962 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This is a collection of quotes by John Steinbeck.

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A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
John Steinbeck

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
John Steinbeck

I've lived in a good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
John Steinbeck

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck

No one who is young is ever going to be old.
John Steinbeck

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

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always ... they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
John Steinbeck

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck