During my first tour of Vietnam, John Steinbeck and his wife were there and we had Christmas dinner together. — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat.” – John Steinbeck” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck” — Laxmi Hariharan Copy Share Image
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. — William Safire Copy Share Image
I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck once wrote, 'Change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like a stealthy… — Lucas Scott Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for… — John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review Copy Share Image
“In the souls of the people The Grapes of Wrath are Filling and Growing Heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." Happy 112th… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look… — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the… — Tom Robbins 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
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
“Today's culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I looked at the sofa. I wanted to lie down on it and close my eyes. I wanted him to just do… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the… — John Steinbeck 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
“I had another reason for seeking Him, for trying to espy His face, a professional one. God and literature are conflated in… — Paul Quarrington Copy Share Image
“Rachel Ries is a wonderful singer/performer/songwriter who writes her music with a literary and poetic style. In an interview with Amanda Miller… — Rachel Ries Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t very long until all the land in the barren hills near King City and San Ardo was taken up, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been… — Sam Anderson - NY Magazine 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
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 Copy Share Image
You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was… — Edward Norton 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'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck,… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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