![…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.](/assets/img/quote-photos/thomas-wolfe-says-that-we-are-the-sum-of-all-the-moments-of-our-lives-and-tha.jpg)
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