John Steinbeck Quotes


It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.


Citations

Steinbeck, John. Sweet Thursday. Viking Press, 1954, p. 21.

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John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
  • Born: February 27, 1902
  • Died: December 20, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.