Authors — Quotes

Thomas Wolfe Quotes: 7

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
You Can't Go Home Again
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
You can't go home again
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.
You Can't Go Home Again
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.