Steinbeck Quotes

16 quotes by 13 authors

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even… — Edward Abbey
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. — James Gould Cozzens
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why… — Eddie Condon
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some… — Lucas Neff
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette
When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the… — Merle Haggard
I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and… — Vincent Kartheiser
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 poverty can be… — Leon Uris
I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was… — Edward Norton
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… — John Steinbeck
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck — John Steinbeck
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a… — John Steinbeck
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling… — John Steinbeck
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked… — Thomas Steinbeck
I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer… — Lou Holtz
John Steinbeck once wrote, 'Change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like a stealthy perfume of wildflowers… — Lucas Scott

Who Wrote These Steinbeck Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 16 Steinbeck Quotes as follows: