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T. C. Boyle Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1948

Topics

True Up Hold None Needs Maybe

I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that.

Work Good People Me Loved New

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

You House Want Stay Because Pity

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

Problem Competitors Global Many

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Jennette McCurdy

Girl Growing Up Growing Never Room

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

Melina Matsoukas

Improvement Feel Perfect Done Never

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

Smile Eye Better Than Poke

I'm the kind of person where I look to myself a lot on how I can get better. What little, nuanced differences can I make?

Myself Better Differences Look I Can

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

Architecture School College Me Drive

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

Love Guitar Magic Admit Steel Top

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.

Men You Uniform May Million Chinese

I want a partner in crime and a Bonnie to my Clyde. I've just been so focused on my career. Women don't like being number two, so I've been glad to keep my distance so I could focus on me, get my life together and take care of my mom without disappointing the woman I love.

Life Love Women Focus Together Mom

The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.'

Result Inevitable Same China May

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