“There is a story about when
John Steinbeck first heard Woody Guthrie’s song Tom Joad which was based on Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. ‘You little bastard,’ Steinbeck wrote in a letter to the folk singer, ‘how could you say in a few verses what it took me an entire novel to say?'”
– Sarfraz Manzoor,
“Boss-onomics and how Bruce Springsteen got me out of Luton”
guardian.co.uk