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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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