"Have a short story feature two situations, and……" — Gene Wolfe

"Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other."

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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…
Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you…
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…

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More Each Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to… — Aristotle
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they… — Richard Armour
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each… — Rudolf Arnheim
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know… — Antonin Artaud
I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help… — Rodney Atkins
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster… — Norman Ralph Augustine
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once… — Paul Auster

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