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....

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly....

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....

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature....

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

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