"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest…" — Gene Wolfe
"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
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48 Quotes by Gene Wolfe
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all.…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet.…
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army…
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