Tom Wolfe Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.”

“I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.”

“I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.”

“'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.”

“I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.”

“Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.”

“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 Side of Manhattan.”

“I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.”

“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 which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.”

“Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.”