T.C. Boyle Quotes

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a b...

He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe...

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of...

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in...

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their a...

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that peo...

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: l...

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole...

I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constrictin...

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I...

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole...

I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my pape...

It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at th...

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good ...

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick...

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a rea...

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and bet...

Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your ...

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a rea...

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If...