John Steinbeck
"I had to keep arguing for so long that genre is literature just as much as The Grapes of Wrath is. Of course, most of it isn't as good—but most realism isn't as good as The Grapes of Wrath either."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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"A novel like The Grapes of Wrath may fill a new writer with feelings of despair and good old-fashioned jealousy—'I'll never be able to write anything that good, not if I live to be a thousand'—but such feelings can also serve as a spur, goading the writer to work harder and aim higher."
— Stephen King
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Follow Your Curiosity