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
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
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.