John Steinbeck Want Quotations

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.