I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan. — John Prine Copy Share Image
It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though… — Diane Drake Copy Share Image
During my first tour of Vietnam, John Steinbeck and his wife were there and we had Christmas dinner together. — Joey Heatherton 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
“I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break—remember, most of them were fed on… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat.” – John Steinbeck” — John Steinbeck 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
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
When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further… — Merle Haggard 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 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
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
“I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in… — Trisha Haddad 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“We all have that heritage, no matter what old land our fathers left. All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I seen fellas like you before. You ain’t askin’ nothin’; you’re jus’ singin’ a kinda song. ‘What we comin’ to?’ You don’… — 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
“The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for… — John Steinbeck 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
“say these like it’s nothing. Teachers will say, “Obviously in the childlike actions taken by the innocent half-wit Lennie, you can see… — Rachel Simon 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
“She had not learned from reading it that adultery was good or that we should all become shysters. Did people all go… — Azar Nafisi 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
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 was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven,… — Edward Abbey 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
“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 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
“The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck” — Laxmi Hariharan Copy Share Image
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