[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the… — Michael Sokolove Copy Share Image
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,… — James Jones Copy Share Image
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but… — Robert R. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust… — B. Wayne Hughes Copy Share Image
“...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image