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 SteinbeckWherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
John SteinbeckHe said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
John Steinbeck