Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buckwas an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 June 1892
CountryUnited States of America
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
We must have hope or starve to death.
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Love dies only when growth stops.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.