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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. — Tom Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. — Tom Wolfe

YOU ARE HEREBY EMPOWERED!!!!!!!!!!!!! — Tom Wolfe

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one. — Tom Wolfe

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

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman. — Tom Wolfe

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York.
(on Tom Wolfe) — Norman Mailer

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. — Tom Wolfe

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. — Tom Wolfe

If a monkey has become a man - what may not a man become? — Tom Wolfe

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. — Tom Wolfe

feet - "Charlotte." Someone inside was using her — Tom Wolfe

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.
(on Tom Wolfe) — John Irving

If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of intellectual. — Tom Wolfe

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

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. — Tom Wolfe

often in The Descent of Man, "my dog" steps forth as major evidence. — Tom Wolfe

Art is not eternal. — Tom Wolfe

The road of knowledge leads to the palace of wisdom
— Tom Wolfe

The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides news. — Tom Wolfe

A few joints are circulating around, saliva-liva-liva-liva-liva. — Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction is never going to die. — Tom Wolfe

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. — Tom Wolfe

If you label it this, then it can't be that. — Tom Wolfe

Bullshit reigns. — Tom Wolfe

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle. — Tom Wolfe

It was a chorus! A rain of garbage! A Rigoletto from the sewer, from the rancid gullet of the Bronx! — Tom Wolfe

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. — Tom Wolfe

An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others. — Tom Wolfe

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer. — Tom Wolfe

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are. — Tom Wolfe

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. — Tom Wolfe

In the 1920s and 1930s they hit upon the bright idea of co-opting genetics and treating it as one of the Theory of Evolution's components. A — Tom Wolfe

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know. — Rod Serling

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for. — Tom Wolfe

It got to be an American custom, like talk shows, Face the Nation, marriage counseling, marathon encounters, or zoning hearings. — Tom Wolfe

The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War. — Tom Wolfe

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions. — Tom Wolfe

Art is a creed, not a craft. — Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. — Tom Wolfe

It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history. — Tom Wolfe

His genius had only begun to flower. This was only journalism, after all, a cup of tea on the way to his eventual triumph as a novelist. — Tom Wolfe

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves. — Tom Wolfe

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

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. — Tom Wolfe

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. — Tom Wolfe

The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe. — Tom Wolfe

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. — Tom Wolfe

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are. — Tom Wolfe

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. — Tom Wolfe

We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. — Tom Wolfe

You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes. — Tom Wolfe

Somehow he knew, based on very little experience, that this faux-casual shit spelled money. — Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym. — Tom Wolfe

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

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. — Tom Wolfe

Put your good where it will do the most! — Tom Wolfe

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about. — Tom Wolfe

I'm a great believer in outlines. — Tom Wolfe

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe

And now, in the season of the Radical Chic, the Black Panthers. — Tom Wolfe

The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61 — Tom Wolfe

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. — Tom Wolfe

he published a manifesto with a title Darwinists have been quoting ever since: "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution."78 — Tom Wolfe

Dear Mother,
I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried ... I have met some Beautiful People and ... — Tom Wolfe

Your self ... is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread. — Tom Wolfe

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe. — Tom Wolfe

The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow. — Tom Wolfe

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

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe. — William Zinsser

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols. — Tom Wolfe

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice. — Tom Wolfe

Everything in everybody's life is ... significant. And everybody is alert, watching for the meanings. — Tom Wolfe

They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts. — Tom Wolfe

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug? — Tom Wolfe

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed. — Tom Wolfe

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak. — Tom Wolfe

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