John Steinbeck, on inspiration and writing:

Ideas are like rabbits.

You get a couple and learn how to handle them,

and pretty soon you have a dozen.

- John Steinbeck.

Born on this day – John Steinbeck:

John Steinbeck

Writer

February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

Credits:

Burning Bright (1950); Cannery Row (1945); Cup of Gold (1929); East of Eden (1952); Five Best Sellers (1989); In Dubious Battle (1936); Nothing So Monstrous (1936); Of Mice and Men (1937); Of Mice and Men and Short Stories (1937); Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (1978); Sweet Thursday (1954); The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Gift (1992); The Grapes of Wrath (1939); The Long Valley (1938); The Moon Is Down (1942); The Moon Is Down and Short Stories (1942); The Pastures of Heaven (1932); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1933); The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (1953); The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957); The Vigilante (2018); The Wayward Bus (1947); The Winter of Our Discontent (1961); To A God Unknown (1933); Tortilla Flat (1935); Viva Zapata (1975); Zapata (1993).

John Steinbeck, on writing:

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.