American dream Quote by Ronald Wright

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

— John Steinbeck

“I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I…

— Phillip Adams

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

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

One of the true pleasures of my life has been the work of John Steinbeck. He was one of the people who turned my…

— Harry Belafonte