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T. C. Boyle Quotes

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.

T. C. Boyle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Writing Think Environment

Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship.

Joanna Garcia

Life Relationship Think Question

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Jesse Jackson

Know Run How Campaign

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

Jenny Downham

Children Commitment Creative Child

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Max Weber

Good Age Time Old Age Think Head

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

Maureen Chiquet

Listen Like Sponge

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Effort Performance You Down Go Full

I still support Planned Parenthood personally because they do a good job providing health care for women, have for generations in my congressional district.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

Good Women Health Job Support Care

You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, 'Check your privilege,' they're saying, 'Acknowledge how these factors helped you move through life.' They're not saying apologize for it.

Roxane Gay

Life Man People Control Saying You

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Michael Patrick Jann

Good Style Money Energy Create Way

I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who's now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses.

Michael Mann

Personality Ride City Woods Horse

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

Josh Turner

God Relationship Thankful Day Me

It was the case that I wanted to go. Not because I don't like West Ham, but because I need to have minutes on the pitch.

Javier Hernandez

Go Need West Because Like Minutes