To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about. Tom Wolfe adventurediscovergreat Change image and share on social
I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for. Tom Wolfe journalisttalkvote Change image and share on social
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. Tom Wolfe bookfindinterview Change image and share on social
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. Tom Wolfe backwardbitemilieu Change image and share on social
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them. Tom Wolfe dormantfindgood Change image and share on social
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 the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I. Tom Wolfe 1950sageamerican share on social
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that. Tom Wolfe highlyoldperfectionist share on social
American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. Tom Wolfe aheadamericangovernment Change image and share on social
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. Tom Wolfe agecreateevolution Change image and share on social
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. Tom Wolfe americandecadegreat Change image and share on social