Bad business Quote by T.C. Boyle

Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be…

— T.C. Boyle

The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've…

— T.C. Boyle

Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.

— T.C. Boyle

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th…

— T.C. Boyle

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were…

— T.C. Boyle

“Besides, to like something, to really like it and come out and say so, is taking a terrible risk. I mean, what if I'm…

— T.C. Boyle

“I am concerned with social and environmental issues. What rational person is not? But advocacy and art do not mix. Art is a seduction.…

— T.C. Boyle

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

— T.C. Boyle

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures…

— T.C. Boyle

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just…

— T.C. Boyle

“Who was she in high school? Little Miss Nobody. She could have embroidered it on her sweaters, tattooed it across her forehead. And in…

— T.C. Boyle