All Tom Wolfe Quotes
- Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. Been
- My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. Career
- Nonfiction is never going to die. Die
- Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. Book
- Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. All
- Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. All
- By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in… American
- Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked… Ability
- I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on… All
- It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In… Acquired
- It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it… Bigger
- My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,… Agricultural
- No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact… Altered
- People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation… Complain
- So many people in this country have a dual loyalty. They have loyalty to America, but they also are determined to have their parade up… America
- The 'New York Honk,' as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of… Accent
- The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example… Amazing
- The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and… Asking
- The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long… Accepting
- There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three… Actually Make