"I could speculate, but it would be just……" — Gene Wolfe
"I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system."
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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 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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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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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on…
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
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