Life Quote by Harry Belafonte

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go…

— Merle Haggard

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 on a…

— Harry Belafonte

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his…

— Lou Holtz

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

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day,…

— John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily…

— Ronald Wright

How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot…

— 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…

— Thomas Steinbeck

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I…

— Khaled Hosseini

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…

— Lucas Neff

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck

— John Steinbeck

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

— Tom Robbins