Tom Perrotta Quotes

Tom Perrotta — American Novelist born on August 13, 1961,

Thomas R. Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election and Little Children, both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also known for his novel The Leftovers, which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO... (wikipedia)

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

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.

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Tom Perrotta Quotes

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