Tom Wolfe Quotes

88 quotes in 1363 categories

• don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into…
• it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short…
• Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but…
• I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were…
• Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...
• The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
• I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a…
• I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the…
• If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
• There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.
• I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are…
• Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap…
• When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was…
• In the 1930s, all the novelists had seemed to be people who came blazing up into stardom from out of total obscurity. That seemed to…
• By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was…
• The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some…
• At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East…
• There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
• There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as…
• We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Browse Tom Wolfe Quotes by Category