About Quote by Tom Perrotta

Let my temptation be a book.

— Eugene Field

No temptation is a temptation, unless we are entertaining it.

— Sterling W Sill

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Temptation is something that comes along when you're doing something you don't want to do.

— Trent Williams

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

— Margaret Deland

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

— Gloria Naylor

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

— Gary Zukav

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

— William Shakespeare

Writing is seduction.

— Stephen King

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your…

— Bret Easton Ellis