--- title: "4 Steve Tesich Quotes - Famous Screenwriter (Abspann)" description: "Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-tesich-87414.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Steve Tesich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-tesich-87414.jpg) # Steve Tesich (1942–1996) Screenwriter **4** quotes in **66** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Steve Tesich was a screenwriter, best known for *Abspann*. ## Quick Facts About Steve Tesich Born September 29, 1942 Died July 1, 1996 Profession Screenwriter Notable works Abspann ## About Steve Tesich Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the film Breaking Away. ## Quotes by Steve Tesich > [No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/no-birth-certificate-is-issued-when-friendship-is-born-there-is/) [Steve Tesich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-tesich/) [Apartment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apartment/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/steve-tesich-69361_apartment_no-birth-certificate-is-issued-when-frie_45479.jpg) > [Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/life-it-seems-is-not-meaningless-but-rather-so-full-of-meaning-that/) [Steve Tesich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-tesich/) [Cohesion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cohesion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3a/steve-tesich-69361_cohesion_life-it-seems-is-not-meaningless-but-rat_2277457.jpg) > [What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/what-i-loved-about-bike-racing-was-that-it-was-not-a-mainstream-sport/) [Steve Tesich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-tesich/) [Bike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bike/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/steve-tesich-69361_bike_what-i-loved-about-bike-racing-was-that_2885591.jpg) > [So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-tesich/so-i-made-an-outline-well-you-know-days-are-going-by-and-i-am-not/) [Steve Tesich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-tesich/) [Bother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bother/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/steve-tesich-69361_bother_so-i-made-an-outline-well-you-know-days_3107804.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-tesich/#itemlist", "name": "Steve Tesich Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. 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