Books Quote by Gene Wolfe

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Gene Wolfe

“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

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

— Gene Wolfe

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

— Gene Wolfe