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
He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.
People do not want advice - they want corroboration.
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
A man without words is a man without thought.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.