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" Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending. "
T. C. Boyle
Story
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Organic
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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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" Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't. "
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" I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself. "
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" I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it. "
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" It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you. "
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Looking
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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 tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world. "
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" The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries. "
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Beauty
American
Dead
" As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it. "
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Want
Truth Is
" One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything. "
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Able
Everything
Productive
" 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. "
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Know
Funny
Think
" This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth. "
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Why
Truth
Art
" I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. "
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Read
Somebody
Voice
" I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. "
T. C. Boyle
Power
Really
Laughter
" I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do. "
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Think
Good
Happy
" What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions. "
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Make
Decisions
Art
" 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
Writing
Environment
Experience
" I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you. "
T. C. Boyle
Beside
Musicians
You
" I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants. "
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Want
Writing
World
" Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true. "
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Think
Sometimes
" This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them. "
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Characters
Beauty
" Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all. "
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Life
Absurd
Any
" The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since. "
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Events
Life
My Life
" I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art. "
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Excitement
Art
" I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere. "
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Chair
Never
Fear
" I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else. "
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Everything
Point
Sacrifice
" 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. "
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News
Value
Story
" I envy Jesus because he's dead. "
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Dead
Jesus
Because
" I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning. "
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Tomorrow
Morning
Saying
" What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language? "
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Language
Identity
You