John Steinbeck

'John Steinbeck' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Steinbeck, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen East of Eden: Art in Search of Life

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Pearl

  2001, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Of Mice and Men

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Winter of Our Discontent

  1983, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Cannery Row

  1982, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Of Mice and Men

  1981, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Möss och människor

  1977, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Anthropoi kai pontikia

  1977, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Hiiriä ja ihmisiä

  1977, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Fareler ve insanlar

  1975, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Red Pony

  1973, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Topoli

  1972, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Harness

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Des souris et des hommes

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Von Mäusen und Menschen

  1968, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Of Mice and Men

  1968, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ikimize bir dünya

  1962, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Helmi

  1962, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Livsflammen

  1957, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Wayward Bus

  1957, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen East of Eden

  1955, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Light's Diamond Jubilee

  1954, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Full House

  1952, role: actor , character name: Narration By
• Play in Full Screen Viva Zapata!

  1952, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Red Pony

  1949, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Red Pony

  1949, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La perla

  1947, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La perla

  1947, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen A Medal for Benny

  1945, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Lifeboat

  1944, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Moon Is Down

  1943, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Tortilla Flat

  1942, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Forgotten Village

  1941, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Forgotten Village

  1941, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Grapes of Wrath

  1940, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Of Mice and Men

  1939, role: writer

Famous quotes by John Steinbeck:

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

"This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."

"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction"

"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass."

"As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment."

"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."

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

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"It always seemed strange to me that 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, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second."

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."

"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."

"I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."

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

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."

John Steinbeck

Born: 1902-02-27

Died: 1968-12-20