American - Novelist | August 13, 1961 -
I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.
Tom Perrotta
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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.
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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.
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My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.
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I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.
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I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.
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As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
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My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
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My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.
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I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'
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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.
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Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
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