“Tolstoy, Hafez, Steinbeck and Cervantes were no longer her friends.” — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
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
“They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat.” – John Steinbeck” — John 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
“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
I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels. — William Safire 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
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
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
“Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe… — Robyn Schneider Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then… — Mark Kurlansky 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
“Steinbeck wasn't the thirties and Dickens wasn't the eighteen-hundreds. They were of their times but for the ages. Their writings are not… — Elliot Perlman 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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old… — Leon Uris 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
![“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 in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist…” quote by Richard Corliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/673/richard-corliss-4476_book_john-steinbeck-s-the-grapes-of-wrath-als_249829.png)
