"As for writing about temptation, there's no drama……" — Tom Perrotta
"As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama."
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48 Quotes by Tom Perrotta
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Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
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Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.
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It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
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Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has…
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She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back…
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I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
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I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few…
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I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to…
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I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.
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I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with…
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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
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I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.
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Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
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