الأدبُ قديمٌ قدمَ الكلام. نشأ من حاجةٍ إنسانية إليه، ولم يتغيّر إلا ليزداد الحاجةَ إليه.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed”John Steinbeck — America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (2003)
جون ستاينبيك
مؤلف · 1902–1968. له 237 حكمة في الموقع.
الصورة: McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74