All Tom Wolfe Quotes
- 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… Arouse
- 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… Climb
- 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… Adopted
- 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… Attention
- Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and... Beautiful
- The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. 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… Along
- 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… Beat
- If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are. Difference
- There is no motivation higher than being a good writer. Good
- 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… Airport
- 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… College
- 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… Baseball
- 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… All
- 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… Age
- 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… Art
- 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… All
- There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Act
- There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as… Been
- We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. American