"Your bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff" (Steinbeck) - Notable works

Tortilla Flat (1935; film, 1942)

In Dubious Battle (1936)

Of Mice And Men (1937; films, 1939, 1999)

"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."
— John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)

The Red Pony (1937; film, 1949)

The Grapes Of Wrath (1939, Pulitzer Prize; film, 1940)

"You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff"
— John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)

The Moon Is Down (1942; film, 1943)

Cannery Row (1945; film, 1982)

"Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world."
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row; Sweet Thursday)

The Pearl (1947; film, 1948)

The Wayward Bus (1947; film, 1957)

Burning Bright (1950)

East of Eden (1952; film, 1955)

"I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?"
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

Travels with Charley (1962)

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
— John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)