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T. C. Boyle
American
Novelist
Born:
Dec 2
,
1948
Art
Life
Think
World
Writing
You
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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.
T. C. Boyle
Saying
Time
You
Heart
Looking
Own
Punch
Way
Say
Saying Goodbye
Goodbye
Suppose
How
Brain
End
Same
Just
Same Time
Stories
Story
Us
Certain
Hard
Each
Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
T. C. Boyle
Sometimes
Find
More
Often
Common
Common Ground
Ground
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.
T. C. Boyle
Animals
Other
Our
Correct
Kind
Impact
Like
How
Deny
Trying
Done
Just
Just Kind
Fascinated
Assess
Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
T. C. Boyle
Ending
Own
Organic
Every
Finds
Story
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
Needs
Characters
Admirable
Primarily
True
None
Up
Maybe
Hold
Satirist
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.
T. C. Boyle
News
Entertainment
Science
Value
Scenario
Writer
Learn
Read
Arts
Being
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Story
Informed
Help
Novel
Widely
Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
T. C. Boyle
Life
Purpose
Absurd
None
Tragic
Any
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.
T. C. Boyle
Video Games
Time
People
Punk
Down
Busy
Society
Everything
Books
Worry
Easier
TV
About
More
Fact
Contemplative
Up
Any
In Fact
Wanted
Against
Movies
Video
Much
Used
Games
Multimedia
Tear
Deeply
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
T. C. Boyle
Life
Truth
Art
Lie
More
How
How Much
Affecting
Than
Fiction
Much
Why
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
Funny
Natural
Hate
Confusion
Humor
Think
Too
Way
Critics
Horror
More
Writers
Part
Know
Most
Said
Cover
Affecting
Quick
Shock
Than
Just
Natural Way
Even
Serious
Why
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
Beauty
Characters
Like
May
Fiction
Them
Inhabit
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.
T. C. Boyle
Day
Every Day
World
Collective
Country
Every
State
Our
Worry
About
Seems
Deliver
Nail
New
Am
Hammer
Species
Coffin
I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
T. C. Boyle
You
Musicians
Enemy
Fathom
Married
Beside
Writers
Bed
Your
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
T. C. Boyle
Laughter
Power
Horror
Like
Stopping
Turning
Really
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.
T. C. Boyle
Hope
Future
Religion
You
Science
Face
Seven
Laugh
No Hope
Only
The Only Thing
Us
Planet
Billion
Thing
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
T. C. Boyle
Entertainment
Writing
Lose
Sight
Fact
Doomed
Then
My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
T. C. Boyle
Life
Work
Truth
Job
My Life
Out
Tell
Entertain
Work Out
Certain
Engage
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.
T. C. Boyle
Art
World
Too Much
Think
Too
Everything
Worry
Consolation
About
Just
Anybody
Much
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
Mind
Own
Live
Everyone
Everything
Intimate
Out
My Own
Puzzles
Like
Stories
Regardless
Working
Novels
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
Myself
Environmentalist
Like
Because
Woods
Describe
Marching
Street
Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
T. C. Boyle
Art
Me
Saved
Corny
True
Sound
May
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.
T. C. Boyle
People
Sometimes
Think
Dramatic
Entertaining
Something
Tend
True
Depth
Amusing
The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
T. C. Boyle
Seduced
Seduction
Reader
Novel
I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
T. C. Boyle
Art
Best
You
Political
Job
Own
Think
Books
Correctly
Pretty
Scenario
Supposed
Know
Read
Reader
Doing
Where
Mean
Much
Engage
Stand
Your
Presenting
I envy Jesus because he's dead.
T. C. Boyle
Envy
He
Dead
Because
Jesus
The beauty of American law is you cannot slander anybody who is dead. This is not true in all countries.
T. C. Boyle
You
Law
Beauty
True
Countries
Dead
American
Anybody
Cannot
Who
Slander
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