"I'm not sure that it's possible to write……" — Tom Perrotta
"I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel."
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Tom Perrotta
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48 Quotes by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta has 48 quotes on this site.
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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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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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