Top 51 Quotes by T. C. Boyle

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

As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.

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

The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

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.

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.

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

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

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