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T. C. Boyle Quotes

American - Novelist | December 2, 1948 -

Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.

Future Hope Science Religion Face

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

Writing Lose Entertainment Sight

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.

Time People Video Games Society Busy

My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.

Life Work Truth Job My Life Out

I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.

Love Questions Audience Controversy

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

Writing Voice Because Somebody Read

I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

Fun World Have Fun Worry Jokes Tell

I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.

Art World Think Worry Too Much Just

I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

Live Mind My Own Everything Out Own

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

Life Truth Art Lie Why More

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.

Funny Humor Hate Think Serious Know

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.

Experience Writing Think Environment

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