Quotes by Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe

…I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

Flaws

Made

Real

…in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

Oneself

Situation

Winning

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

Children

Light

Two

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

Life

Men

Wise

A youthful American voice isn’t particularly challenging – I’ve been a young American, and they’re all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

House

School

Voice

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Fantasy

Honest

Novel

All of us… when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

Believe

Talking

Thinking

All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

Art

Beautiful

Children

All time exists. That is the truth…. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Journey

Past

Time

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

Closure

Doubt

Stories

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Admiration

Almost Perfect

Amber

Answers

Army

Art

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Capable

Change

Character

Charm

Childhood

Children

Clever

Closure

Color

Communication

Conscious

Defining

Definitions

Desire

Despise

Differences

Disturbed

Doe

Dog

Doubt

Dream

Echoes

Evil

Facts

Fall

Fantasy

Feel Better

Fiction

Fiction Stories

Flaws

Getting High

Grandmother

Honest

House

Humanity

Ignorance

Ignorant

Intelligent

Journey

Justice

Knowing

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Quotes by Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe

…I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

…in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

A youthful American voice isn’t particularly challenging – I’ve been a young American, and they’re all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

All of us… when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.

All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

All time exists. That is the truth…. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

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