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T. C. Boyle

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Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day. - T. C. Boyle
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I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you. - T. C. Boyle
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. - T. C. Boyle
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story. - T. C. Boyle
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too. - T. C. Boyle
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in. - T. C. Boyle
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself. - T. C. Boyle
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants. - T. C. Boyle
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true. - T. C. Boyle
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin. - T. C. Boyle
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them. - T. C. Boyle
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all. - T. C. Boyle
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced. - T. C. Boyle
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do. - T. C. Boyle
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth. - T. C. Boyle
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. - T. C. Boyle
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