Quote 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. John Steinbeck
Quote I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. John Steinbeck
Quote I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. Ernest Hemingway
Quote In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. John Steinbeck
Quote Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. John Steinbeck