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> [I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/i-wrote-the-grapes-of-wrath-in-one-hundred-days-but-many-years-of/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [“Sometimes the sweetest wine is squeezed from the grapes of wrath”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-gallo/sometimes-the-sweetest-wine-is-squeezed-from-the-grapes-of-wrath/)

Jack Gallo

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> [In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/in-the-souls-of-the-people-the-grapes-of-wrath-are-filling-and/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlton-heston/you-could-think-of-extraordinary-examples-to-the-contrary-the-grapes/)

[Charlton Heston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlton-heston/)

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> ['The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-hillcoat/the-road-reminds-me-of-steinbeck-s-the-grapes-of-wrath/)

[John Hillcoat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-hillcoat/)

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> [The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/napoleon-bonaparte/the-best-medicine-against-the-grapes-of-wrath-is-a-whiff-of-grapeshot/)

[Napoleon Bonaparte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/napoleon-bonaparte/)

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> [Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-corliss/soviet-moviegoers-gazed-enviously-on-the-jalopy-that-took-the-joads/)

[Richard Corliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-corliss/)

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> [Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-ward-howe/mine-eyes-have-seen-the-glory-of-the-coming-of-the-lord-he-is/)

[Julia Ward Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-ward-howe/)

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> [“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/and-in-the-eyes-of-the-people-there-is-the-failure-and-in-the-eyes-of/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lou-holtz/i-was-born-january-6-1937-eight-years-after-wall-street-crashed-and/)

[Lou Holtz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lou-holtz/)

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> [ \[Akiro\] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/costa-gavras/akiro-kurosawa-no-doubt-was-a-big-influence-movies-sometimes-more/)

[Costa-Gavras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/costa-gavras/)

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> [“The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mitchell/the-way-he-talked-about-moving-south-reminded-us-of-the-joads-in/)

Robert R. Mitchell

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> [“In the souls of the people The Grapes of Wrath are Filling and Growing Heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." Happy 112th…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/in-the-souls-of-the-people-the-grapes-of-wrath-are-filling-and-2/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philipp-meyer/when-you-look-at-grapes-of-wrath-the-weakest-moments-are-those-in/)

[Philipp Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philipp-meyer/)

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> ['Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-rich/up-in-the-air-may-be-a-glossy-production-sprinkled-with-laughter-and/)

[Frank Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-rich/)

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> [The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-eliot-morison/the-freedmen-were-not-really-free-in-1865-nor-are-most-of-their/)

[Samuel Eliot Morison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-eliot-morison/)

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> [The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-corliss/the-1930s-birthed-two-great-agrarian-novels-gone-with-the-wind-from/)

[Richard Corliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-corliss/)

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> [“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/men-who-have-created-new-fruits-in-the-world-cannot-create-a-system-2/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khaled-hosseini/i-remember-reading-the-grapes-of-wrath-in-high-school-in-1983-my/)

[Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khaled-hosseini/)

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> [Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-wayne-hughes/have-you-read-the-grapes-of-wrath-that-was-my-family-my-dad-was-a/)

B. Wayne Hughes

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> [The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-von-hoffman/the-american-government-has-been-harvesting-the-middle-eastern-grapes/)

[Nicholas von Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-von-hoffman/)

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> [When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-mandela/when-i-closed-the-grapes-of-wrath-i-was-a-different-man-it-enriched/)

[Nelson Mandela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-mandela/)

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> [John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-corliss/john-steinbeck-s-the-grapes-of-wrath-also-speaks-urgently-to-today-s/)

[Richard Corliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-corliss/)

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> [“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phillip-adams/i-became-aware-of-jews-in-my-early-teens-as-i-started-to-pick-up-the/)

[Phillip Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phillip-adams/)

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> [“​There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/there-is-a-crime-here-that-goes-beyond-denunciation-there-is-a-sorrow-2/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jones/but-he-had-always-believed-in-fighting-for-the-underdog-against-the/)

[James Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jones/)

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> [“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/good-writing-on-the-other-hand-teaches-the-learning-writer-about/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-sokolove/in-april-2012-the-new-york-times-published-a-heart-wrenching-essay-by/)

[Michael Sokolove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-sokolove/)

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> [“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/almost-everyone-can-remember-losing-his-or-her-virginity-and-most/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/the-works-of-the-roots-of-the-vines-of-the-trees-must-be-destroyed-to/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-fonda/my-childhood-was-influenced-by-the-roles-my-father-played-in-his/)

[Jane Fonda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-fonda/)

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> [I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-mcmurtry/i-once-owned-a-collection-of-77-novels-that-won-the-pulitzer-the-only/)

[Larry McMurtry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-mcmurtry/)

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> [“...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/and-in-the-eyes-of-the-hungry-there-is-a-growing-wrath-in-the-souls/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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## Top authors on Grapes Of Wrath

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                        "text": "[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman.",
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                        "text": "Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.",
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                        "text": "“​There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill the certificates - died of malnutrition - because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. ...and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”",
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                        "text": "“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of social conscience, The Movies. From all those movies that had begun to come out when Roosevelt went in. He had been a kid back then, a kid who had not been on the bum yet, but he was raised up on all those movies that they made then, the ones that were between '32 and '37 and had not yet degenerated into commercial imitations of themselves like the Dead End Kid perpetual series that we have now. He had grown up with them, those movies like the every first Dead End , like Winternet , like Grapes Of Wrath , like Dust Be My Destiny , and those other movies starring John Garfield and the Lane girls, and the on-the-bum and prison pictures starring James Cagney and George Raft and Henry Fonda.”",
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                        "text": "“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. A novel like The Grapes of Wrath may fill a new writer with feelings of despair and good old-fashioned jealousy—“I’ll never be able to write anything that good, not if I live to be a thousand”—but such feelings can also serve as a spur, goading the writer to work harder and aim higher. Being swept away by a combination of great story and great writing—of being flattened, in fact—is part of every writer’s necessary formation. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”",
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                        "text": "“In April 2012, The New York Times published a heart-wrenching essay by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher in the New York City public schools. Under the headline “Teach the Books, Touch the Heart,” she began with an anecdote about teaching John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. As her class read the end together out loud in class, her “toughest boy,” she wrote, “wept a little, and so did I.” A girl in the class edged out of her chair to get a closer look and asked Hollander if she was crying. “I am,” she said, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times.” Hollander, a reading enrichment teacher, shaped her lessons around robust literature—her classes met in small groups and talked informally about what they had read. Her students did not “read from the expected perspective,” as she described it. They concluded (not unreasonably) that Holden Caulfield “was a punk, unfairly dismissive of parents who had given him every advantage.” One student read Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies as raps. Another, having been inspired by Of Mice and Men, went on to read The Grapes of Wrath on his own and told Hollander how amazed he was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” She knew that these classes were enhancing her students’ reading levels, their understanding of the world, their souls. But she had to stop offering them to all but her highest-achieving eighth-graders. Everyone else had to take instruction specifically targeted to boost their standardized test scores. Hollander felt she had no choice. Reading scores on standardized tests in her school had gone up in the years she maintained her reading group, but not consistently enough. “Until recently, given the students’ enthusiasm for the reading groups, I was able to play down that data,” she wrote. “But last year, for the first time since I can remember, our test scores declined in relation to comparable schools in the city. Because I play a leadership role in the English department, I felt increased pressure to bring this year’s scores up. All the teachers are increasing their number of test-preparation sessions and practice tests, so I have done the same, cutting two of my three classic book groups and replacing them with a test preparation tutorial program.” Instead of Steinbeck and Shakespeare, her students read “watered-down news articles or biographies, bastardized novels, memos or brochures.” They studied vocabulary words, drilled on how to write sentences, and practiced taking multiple-choice tests. The overall impact of such instruction, Hollander said, is to “bleed our English classes dry.” So”",
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                        "text": "“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking, \"I can do better that this. Hell, I am doing better than this!\" What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize that his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff? Good writing on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. A novel like The Grapes of Wrath may fill a new writer with feelings of despair and good old-fashioned jealousy--\"I'll never be able to write anything that good, not if I live to be a thousand\"--but such feelings can also serve as a spur, goading the writer to work harder and aim higher. Being swept away by a combination of great story and great writing--of being flattened, in fact--is part of every writer's necessary formation. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. So we read to experience the mediocre and the outright rotten; such experience helps us to recognize those things when they begin to creep into our own work, and to steer clear of them. We also read in order to measure ourselves against the good and the great, to get a sense of all that can be done. And we read in order to experience different styles.”",
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                        "text": "“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”",
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                        "text": "I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.",
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