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Authors Thomas Wolfe

Carl Van Vechten

He was outsize in every respect; hugeness is his dominating iconography. Six feet four-and- a-half inches tall; awkward, handsome, impressive, and intimidating. A prodigious drinker and brawler, sleepless to produce the pages that arrived at the publisher in a crate, or so it was said.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at New York Review of Books Elizabeth Hardwick New York Review of Books 2000
… unmediated transmission of Wolfe’s words succeeds only in reminding those who may have forgotten how truly dreadful a writer he is.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at London Review of Books W. C. Spengemann London Review of Books 1988

Wolfe once told me at a cocktail party that I didn’t know what it was to be a writer. My wife, standing next to me, complained about that. “But my husband is a writer,” she said. Wolfe was genuinely surprised. “He is?”

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at The Paris Review James Thurber The Paris Review 1955