Pearl S. Buck Quotes (84 quotes)
![]() | “All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: A Bridge for Passing (1962) |
![]() | “Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: My Several Worlds (1954) |
![]() | “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: What America Means to Me (1943) |
![]() | “I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: As quoted in: The Reader's Digest, Volume 56 (1950), p. 17 |
![]() | “In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record (2013 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781480421233 |
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Pearl S. Buck
Born: June 26, 1892
Died: March 6, 1973 (aged 80)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Novelist, writer, teacher
Bio: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhju, was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
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