Top 51 Quotes by T. C. Boyle

About T. C. Boyle

These are some quotes by American author T. C. Boyle Novelist, who was born on December 2, 1948.

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

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

T. C. Boyle

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.

T. C. Boyle

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

T. C. Boyle

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

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

T. C. Boyle

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

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

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.

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

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

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

T. C. Boyle

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

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

T. C. Boyle

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

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

T. C. Boyle

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.

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

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