"My definition of good literature is that which……" — Gene Wolfe
"My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure."
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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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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
— Hannah Arendt
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor…
— Chinua Achebe
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the…
— Michele Bachmann
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
— Wendell Berry
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
— Donald Berwick
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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