Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.
Tom PerrottaThe interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.
Tom PerrottaIt's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness.
Tom PerrottaA 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