Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.