Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta
Thomas R. Perrottais an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Electionand 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 August 1961
CountryUnited States of America
I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.
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.
She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
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.
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.
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.
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 have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
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.
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.
It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.