Pearl S. Buck was an American novelist.She was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States, and died on March 6, 1973, in Danby, Vermont. She was famous for ‘The Good Earth’, which won her the Pulitzer Prize (1932) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938) for the biographies of her parents and for the description of China.Pearl Buck was concerned about the human creature and good marriages. She also supported women’s rights, social justice, and Asian children’s needs.Famous Pearl S. Buck Quotes(Here are quotes by Pearl Buck for you to read and acknowledge.)These quotes by Pearl S. Buck will surely motivate you.“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.““Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.““There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be.““To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.““Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.““To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.““When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.““Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.““Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.““When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.““If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.““All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.““The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.““To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.““Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored, it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.““Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.““Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.“Pearl S. Buck Quotes About Writing(Pearl S. Buck inspiration for writing.)Pearl S. Buck has a truly creative mind.“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.““Once the “what” is decided, the “how” always follows. We must not make the “how” an excuse for not facing and accepting the “what.““The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.““To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.““Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create – so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him.““He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.““Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.““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."“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” - ‘The Joy Of Children’, 1966.“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?"“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.” - ‘My Several Worlds: A Personal Record’, 1954.“I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.“Pearl S. Buck Quotes About WomenAs an activist, she acknowledged the following about women.“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.““A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.““Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.““Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.” - ‘America’s Medieval Women’, August 1938, Harper’s Magazine.“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.” - ‘Of Men And Women’, 1941.“Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites."“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”Motivational Pearl S. Buck QuotesCheck out these motivational quotes by Pearl S. Buck.“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.““Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.““Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.““I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being.““Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame."“Now, five years is nothing in a man’s life except when he is very young and very old…” - Wang Lung, ‘The Good Earth (House Of Earth1)’.“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.““None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.““Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.““To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” - ‘My Neighbor’s Son, To My Daughters, With Love’, 1967.“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."“The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
Pearl S. Buck was an American novelist.
