~ John Steinbeck Quotes ~

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John Steinbeck Quotes


An American writer.
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Here are some famous quotes by John Steinbeck.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

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We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen.

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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.

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One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.