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 was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
We could live offa the fatta the lan'.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.
There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.
Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.