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Thomas Steinbeck Quotes

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

Thomas Steinbeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1944 - August 11, 2016

Topics

Prove Never Historical Influences

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Andre Gide

God Through Us Depends Achieved

It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable.

Meghan Markle

Parents Mom House Late Director

So many people in L.A. have such different styles. People either dress very similar or very different. It's interesting to find people who think outside the box, and it's interesting, when you mix different mind-sets, what you can come up with.

Sofia Richie

Dress People Think Interesting You

I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Tom McCarthy

Writing World Loved Feel Acting Guy

When we were making 'Arrested Development,' it was the hardest thing I'd ever done. You know, nobody was watching. We weren't getting feedback. The job wasn't paying very well. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. Because no one would be stupid enough to try.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Job Stupid Confident Enough You

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

Christine Quinn

Money Politics Bike Religion Dinner

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

Bret Stephens

Succeed Moral Gut Social Decency

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

Arundhati Roy

Heart Alone Writing Performance Way

Death is a fearful thing.

William Shakespeare

Death Fearful Thing

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.

Shawn Ryan

Trying Long Fall I Can Hollywood

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Good Gardening Miracles Over Spread

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading Saul Bellow is a revelation, but he can't write women. There are exceptions, like Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead,' but generally, I think it's true.

Justin Cartwright

Women Men Writing Reading Better