9. Q: Have you ever told a lie that gets as big and as potentially
disastrous as the one Lonnie tells in the book?
!
A: "I make my living telling lies. Everything I do is a lie. It's an artistic
lie, a story, an invention.That's how I live.The reason that we make
art and love art is because the real world is out of control, utterly
random and there's absolutely no purpose to human life. So what
we do is we create our own scenario in our own world.When
asked this question about why my characters suffer so much, it's
because I'm the god of my own world and by god they're going
to suffer!That's my pleasure."
––T. C. Boyle