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

Quote by John Steinbeck

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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're...

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're...

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if...

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if...

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up...

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in...

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy,...

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy,...

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that...

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that...

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if...

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if...

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you...

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you...

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and...

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and...

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

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

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up...

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and...

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change,...

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change,...

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for...

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for...

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their...

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.