Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat… — 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
Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
All of us... when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of… — 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