John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flatand Cannery Row, the multi-generation epic East of Eden, and the novellas Of Mice and Menand The Red Pony. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 February 1902
CountryUnited States of America
A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
But a man needs company.
Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.
I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.
Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain ...
In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.
A good writer always works at the impossible.
Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
Socialism never took root in America.
I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.