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
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Life is stronger than death.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
What seems new is only new to us.
The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.