Tom Perrotta Quotes About School

• 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.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cute, Summer, Real

• She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life, Girl, Inspiration

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

• 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.

  Tom Perrotta

  Growing Up, Writing, School

• Un guionista me oyó leer mi novela "The Wishbones" cuando aún estaba en marcha y me mencionó a unos productores de Hollywood. Me llamaron y les dije que tenía una novela en el cajón sobre unas elecciones de instituto que se salen de madre. Me pidieron que le echara un vistazo, y mi vida cambió radicalmente.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life Changing, School, Progress

• 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.

  Tom Perrotta

  Lost Love, School, Stories

• 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

  Football, Real, Team

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