T.C. Boyle

Quotes

• “I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or ...”
• “I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burnin...”
• “He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the sub...”
• “In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal li...”
• “A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simp...”
• “First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends ...”
• “These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so...”
• “But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And...”
• “Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood...”
• “But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And...”
• “But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and mus...”