Author: Thomas Steinbeck

Quotes

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

- Thomas Steinbeck

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

- Thomas Steinbeck

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

- Thomas Steinbeck

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

- Thomas Steinbeck

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