There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.

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