American - Novelist | December 2, 1948 -
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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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.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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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.
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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.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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