My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
From Tom Perrotta
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.
I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
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.
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.
It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.
My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.
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