Tom Wolfe Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.”

“Nonfiction is never going to die.”

“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 dancing that way.”

“Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.”

“Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.”

“That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.”

“We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.”

“I'm a great believer in outlines.”

“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 you can't control, namely, speech.”

“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, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.”