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A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

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Looks

Mind

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

Alcohol

Drug

Narcissistic

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

Depressive

Drug

Want

At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

Hands

Joy

Prayer

Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don’t have any restrictions.

Newspapers

Restriction

Stories

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.

Feelings

Journey

Writing

Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it’s an interesting exercise, but I don’t think it illuminates the literature.

Exercise

Interesting

Thinking

Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.

Kids

New York

School

From my point of view, why shouldn’t I work in every possible mode, to see if it’s viable? “Los Gigantes” would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it’s so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.

Eugenics

Fun

Thinking

I always dread the process of writing because I’m not a writer. I’m an audible guy, I’m a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.

Book

Couple

Writing

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Always Trying

Animal

Art

Believe

Blow

Book

Cheer

Couple

Culture

Dark

Depressive

Determination

Different

Drama

Drinking

Drug

Dying

Each Day

Ends

Escaping

Eugenics

Exercise

Feelings

Fiction

Figures

Finals

Focus

Football

Fun

Hands

Heart

House

I'm Sad

Impact

Interesting

Journey

Joy

Kids

Kindness

Knowing

Lakes

Latin

Levels

Life Sucks

Literature

Looks

Maps

May

Mean

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Quotes by T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don’t have any restrictions.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.

Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it’s an interesting exercise, but I don’t think it illuminates the literature.

Especially students. I love to turn them on to a story. Some of them have to go see me as an assignment, like kids from the schools in New York will go to the Y. I want them to know why I love this and why they should too.

I always dread the process of writing because I’m not a writer. I’m an audible guy, I’m a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.

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