129 Quotes by Tom Perrotta

I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.