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 is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.
I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.
The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.
The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.
... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.
(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it.
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.
In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.
New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.
The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.