"Do not start a story unless you have……" — Gene Wolfe

"Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination."

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48 Quotes by Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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More Change Quotes

This quote is filed under Change Quotes, one of 18,261 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from… — Billie Joe Armstrong
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about… — Karen Armstrong
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in… — David Attenborough
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our… — David Attenborough
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also… — David Attenborough
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius

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