Quote

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

Tom Wolfe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Wolfe
Age: 88 †
Born: 1930
Born: March 2
Died: 2018
Died: May 14
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Thomas Kennerly
Jr. Wolfe
Thomas Kennerly Tom Wolfe
Jr.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe
Plausible
Fiction
True
Problem
Writing

More quotes by Tom Wolfe

Image
People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays it's one exclamation point to another.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: You're either on the bus...or off the bus.
Tom Wolfe
Image
You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
Tom Wolfe
Image
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television, before long there was this procession of people of all kinds, walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd there was no sound.
Tom Wolfe
Image
It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.
Tom Wolfe
Image
If you label it this, then it can't be that.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
Tom Wolfe
Image
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.
Tom Wolfe
Image
A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
Tom Wolfe
Image
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.
Tom Wolfe
Image
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.
Tom Wolfe
Image
There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.
Tom Wolfe
Image
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe
Image
The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.
Tom Wolfe
Image
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
Tom Wolfe
Image
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, Please God, don't let me look poor. In the year 2000, they prayed, Please God, don't let me look old. Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.
Tom Wolfe