Quotes by : Thomas Wolfe

From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will never....

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it ....

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're....

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that....

That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel....

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death....

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember....

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to....

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts....