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 have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24
The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.
He is so stupid you can't trust him with an idea.
A fallow field is a sin.
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.
Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.
We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.