52 Quotes by T. C. Boyle

I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

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.

Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.