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" I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin. "

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" I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally. "

T. C. Boyle

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Life

Know

" The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries. "

" One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything. "

" 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. "

" I envy Jesus because he's dead. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

T. C. Boyle

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Own

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

" Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't. "

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

" 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. "

" I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror. "

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

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

" You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before. "

" In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive. "

" I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants. "

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

" 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. "

T. C. Boyle

Because

Myself

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending. "

" The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced. "

" 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. "

" I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

T. C. Boyle

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Admirable

" 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. "