Top 16 Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

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

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.