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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.

It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

Tom Perrotta

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

Tom Perrotta

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.

Tom Perrotta

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

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

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.

Tom Perrotta

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

Tom Perrotta

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

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.

Tom Perrotta

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

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.'

Tom Perrotta

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Tom Perrotta

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

Tom Perrotta