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
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.
A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.
Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.
Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:
The power of an attitude is amazing
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.