Thomas Wolfe's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Novelist
Nation: American
Biography of Thomas Wolfe
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Tags: Become, Money, SuccessA young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
Tags: Lost, Strong, YoungIs this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Tags: Life, Romantic, TrueAll things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Tags: Home, Love, OldLoneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Tags: Experience, Inevitable, LonelinessIn Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Tags: Alone, Beautiful, DeathAmerica - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
Tags: Country, Happen, TimeThe reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Tags: Book, Forget, RememberPerhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Tags: America, Here, StrangeIf a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Tags: Men, Talent, WholePublishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
Tags: Book, Business, GoodOne belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Tags: Five, Minutes, YorkNot even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Tags: Powerful, Time, Work