"The professorial dictum has always been to write……" — T.C. Boyle
"The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works."
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10 Quotes by T.C. Boyle
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I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept…
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At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all…
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But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a…
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I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow,…
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To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth…
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and…
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Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were…
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Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
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