When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
From Tom Wolfe
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.
The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.
I'm a great believer in outlines.
My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.
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