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Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta
American Novelist
Born: Aug 13, 1961
About Because Life Me School Writing
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. Tom Perrotta
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A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result. Tom Perrotta
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I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years. Tom Perrotta
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I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time. Tom Perrotta
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I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade. Tom Perrotta
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The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel. Tom Perrotta
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I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences. Tom Perrotta
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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs. Tom Perrotta
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My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city. Tom Perrotta
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I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. Tom Perrotta
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As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. Tom Perrotta
Writing Drama About Temptation Without Novel
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life. Tom Perrotta
Life Own My Own More Exciting Than Certainly Novels
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them. Tom Perrotta
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I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.' Tom Perrotta
Rings Also Known Because Lord Lord Of The Rings Early
I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them. Tom Perrotta
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Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. Tom Perrotta
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