He was an American writer of German-Irish ancestry. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was entitled The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and
totally he wrote of twenty-seven books. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He worked as a reporter in New York, but was fired so continued as hod carrier,
apprentice painter, caretaker, surveyor and fruitpicker. During World War Two, Steinbeck became a war correspondent and later
worled with special reporting assignments abroad. Steinbeck was a controversial writer because of his support for the underprivileged.
(1902-1968)
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~ John Steinbeck
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
~ John Steinbeck
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
~ John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
~ John Steinbeck
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
~ John Steinbeck
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
~ John Steinbeck
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty,
understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness,
greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire
the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~ John Steinbeck
Time is the only critic without ambition.
~ John Steinbeck
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
~ John Steinbeck
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
~ John Steinbeck
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up
the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
~ John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~ John Steinbeck
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
~ John Steinbeck
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
~ John Steinbeck
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
~ John Steinbeck
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
~ John Steinbeck
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
~ John Steinbeck
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field
against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
< ~ John Steinbeck
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well.
I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
~ John Steinbeck
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
~ John Steinbeck
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
~ John Steinbeck
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And
he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
~ John Steinbeck
Russian author, essayist and philosopher. He is one of the world's pre-eminent writers becoming famous through his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Towards the end of his life, Leo Tolstoy
became increasingly interested in a version of pacifist Christianity with support for a strand of anarchist Communism. His exposition
of pacifism, vegetarianism and non-violence had a profound influence on famous personalities like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi considered Leo Tolstoy to be "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced".
(1828-1910)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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