“I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
“. . .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 Image
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