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
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff
I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.
Don't make everyone know about your sadness.
One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
All great and precious things are lonely.