Quotes from T. C. Boyle


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    I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

    Love | Questions | Audience


    Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

    Dramatic | Depth | Amusing


    Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

    Funny | Sure | Depressed


    Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

    Life | Purpose | Tragic


    It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.

    Hold | Maybe | Needs


    If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

    Sight | Lose | Doomed


    I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

    Heroes | Written | Wondered


    I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

    Sacrifice | Point | Almost


    I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

    Art | Worry | Anybody


    I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

    Worry | Jokes | Everybody


    I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

    Power | Laughter | Horror


    Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

    Art | Sound | Corny


    I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

    Regardless | Stories | Puzzles


    I envy Jesus because he's dead.

    Envy | Dead | Jesus


    I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

    Art | Reach | Excitement


    I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

    Woods | Street | Marching


    I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

    Voice | Somebody | Novel


    I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

    Musicians | Enemy | Bed


    I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

    Nature | Mad | Head


    Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

    Ending | Organic | Finds


       

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