"The reason a writer writes a book is……" — Thomas Wolfe

"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."

— Thomas Wolfe

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49 Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field…
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able…
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness,…
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only…
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a…
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious…
...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say…
Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is…
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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