Quotes by : T.C. Boyle

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....

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

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

I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting....

Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips....

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....