#

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#best #best work #get #i #i was raised

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#based #because #i #like #make

I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#counterproductive #i #i think #most #people

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

— Thomas Wolfe

#been #central #every #every man #experience

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. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#bring #certify #discover #even #his

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#bad #collected #collector #great #i

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#before #editorial #even #i #i think

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#career #entire #entire career #fiction #i

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#because #careful #feelings #i #i do

The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#read #reader #really #short #short story