John Steinbeck Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Home, Good Enough

• I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Home, Mean

• You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Home, Good Memories

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.163, Penguin

• A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.

  John Steinbeck

  Reading, Home, Men

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

• I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Taken, Home

• Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Travel, Reading

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.12, Penguin

• New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

  John Steinbeck

  New York, Children, Dirty

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.44, Penguin

• Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent and generous. If our ancestors had not been that, they would have stayed in their home plots in the other world and starved over the squeezed-out soil.

  John Steinbeck

  Home, Independent, Other Worlds

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.499, Penguin

• The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Home, Men

  John Steinbeck (1995). “To a God Unknown”, p.70, Penguin

• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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