John Steinbeck Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Memories, Flower

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.9, Penguin

• A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Writing, Past

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Fall, Men

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

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