Tom Perrotta Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”