John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck was an American novelist known for his works exploring social issues and the human condition, including 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice and Men'.

"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."
John Steinbeck
"And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men."
John Steinbeck
"... You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relived when they get to democracy that they hang on to it."
John Steinbeck
"And don't worry about losing. If I is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."
John Steinbeck