Quotes by : T.C. Boyle

He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe....

But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries....

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If....

I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m....

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a....

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in....

Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through....

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole....

I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper....

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying....