Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed… — 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
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