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 WolfeI do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
Tom WolfeVietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.
Tom WolfeMost people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
Tom WolfeIt's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed.
Tom Wolfe