The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's…

“They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat.” – John Steinbeck”

— John Steinbeck

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his…

— Lou Holtz

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.

— Paul Dano

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day,…

— John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily…

— Ronald Wright

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot…

— John Steinbeck

My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at…

— Lucas Neff

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck

— John Steinbeck

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

— Tom Robbins

One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who turned my…

— Harry Belafonte

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land…

— Richard Corliss

John Steinbeck once wrote, 'Change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like a stealthy perfume of…

— Lucas Scott

“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I…

— Phillip Adams