“We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.” — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“. . .Consciousness came and went. Consciousness went and came like the errant winds of spring, and I, who so often have… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And it came to me that these trees had been hardly smaller when I was yet unborn, and had stood as they… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Rising, the woman who had carried the jar began to dance to the music of the rebab, fevered music that was like… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death – every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that they may… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“...the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“. . .Consciousness came and went. Consciousness went and came like the errant winds of spring, and I, who so often have had difficulty… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
