Quotes by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I’m feeling inspired. It’s mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

Feelings

Matter

Writing

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality – the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it… in this moment… this supreme moment… this Kairos.

Doors

Feelings

Past

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

Country

Mean

Running

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.

Overwhelming Urge

Real

World

don’t just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

Doors

Emotion

Sometimes

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

Parody

Target

Voice

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

Acting

Mad

People

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

Forever

Journalism

Stories

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways…while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.

Attitude

Hippie

Struggle

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

Firsts

Looks

Waiting

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Hippie

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Quotes by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I’m feeling inspired. It’s mainly a matter of forcing yourself to write.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

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.

don’t just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

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

Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

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

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

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